20Apr 2025 by Post

Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

Angus Menuge, animals, Artificial Intelligence, bacon, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, free won't, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neural mechanisms, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, Podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Source
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27Mar 2025 by Post

Latest — and Largest — Intelligent Design Education Day Explores “Creepy Crawly Complexity”

biology, C. elegans, caterpillar, Center for Science and Culture, Complexity, Creepy Crawly Complexity, earthworms, ecosystem, Education, educators, George Damoff, Great Northern University, How to Code Life, insects, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design Education Day, megradrilologists, Metamorphosis (film), Parents, Pedro Moura, roundworms, science educators, Seattle, spiders, Spokane, Summer Seminar, Tiny Tech, Washington State, worms
Talks by three different scientists showcased the astonishing abundance, diversity, and complexity of insects, spiders, and worms. Source
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21Mar 2025 by Post

Origin of Life: A “Simple” Worm’s Challenge

Animal Algorithms, atheists, behaviors, brain, C. elegans, chaos, directed evolution, Eric Cassell, human brain, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Journal of Neurochemistry, lab animals, Life Sciences, natural selection, order, origin of life, random mutation, Richard Dawkins, simplicity, specified complexity, touch response
Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as our official doctrine of the origin of life proposes? Source
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01Jan 2025 by Post

Happy New Year! No. 1 Story of 2024: Nobel Prize for Function of “Junk DNA”

Autonomous University of Madrid, Bill Dembski, C. elegans, Current Science, David Coppedge, Evolution, Gary Ruvkun, gene regulation, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Junk DNA, Karolinska Institutet, microRNA, miRNA, National Cancer Institute, Nicholas Robine, Nobel Committee, Nobel Prize, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sarnovsky, roundworm, Subhash Lakhotia, The Conversation, The Myth of Junk DNA, Victor Ambros
That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. Source
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14Nov 2024 by Post

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

brains, C. elegans, coherence, Complexity, cortex, crystals, Drosphila melanogaster, efficiency, flight control, fruit flies, Intelligent Design, mating courtship, morphology, mouse, navigation, neural network, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, optimization, pheromones, Research, snowflake, specified complexity, subnetworks, swarming
Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Source
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13Nov 2024 by Post

ORFanID: An Online Search Engine for Identifying Orfan Genes

bacteria, bioinformatics, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, Discovery Institute, DNA, E. coli, Evolution, evolutionary paradigm, fungi, gene classification, genes, genomes, genomics, genomics analysis, H. sapiens, Intelligent Design, nucleotide sequences, O. sativa, ORfan genes, plants, PLOS ONE, S. cerevisiae, search engine, taxonomic groups, Z. mays
The existence of such genes is surprising given the hypothesis of universal common descent. Source
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