Death by Intelligent Design? A Biological Enigma

animal kingdom, bacteria, Bible, biosphere, cancer, Casey Luskin, cat, cell division, chromosome, Darwin Devolves, death, DNA, earth, ecosystem, Faith & Science, humans, Intelligent Design, Karl Krueger, life, mice, Michael Behe, National Cancer Institute, origin of life, plants, proliferation, seeds, squirrels, telomeres
Limited lifespans, accompanied by reproductive continuation of the living organism, provide a sustainable balance for life. Source
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Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

bioethics, biotechnology, carbon molecules, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, obliteration, organ black market, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, Technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping
Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Source
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The Horrors of Canadian Euthanasia

Andrew Coyne, Auld Lang Syne, Be Ceremonial, bioethics, Canada, Catholic priests, Children, Culture, death, Disrupting Death, doctors, Elaina Plott Calabro, euthanasia, faith, Faith & Science, funeral home, garden, homicides, life, Medicine, Ontario, pajama party, patients, suicide, suicide prevention, suicides, The Atlantic
As journalist Andrew Coyne said, “A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.” Source
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

animal, annihilationists, behavior, Boston College, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, Faith & Science, flame, Good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, Justice, Medicine, mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, number 7, Peter Kreeft, philosophy, physical world, plant, rational soul, terminal lucidity
The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Source
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Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch

brain surgeries, Bruce Greyson, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, David Klinghoffer, death, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Gary Habermas, mathematics, matter, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, Sean McDowell, soul, spirit, The Immortal Mind
"You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday." Source
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The Math Behind the Immaterial Genome 

algorithm, algorithmic information, carbohydrates, cognition, David Klinghoffer, death, deformations, development, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, Evolution, fetus, genes, immaterial genome, infant, information, instructions, Intelligent Design, lipids, mathematics, mutations, Mycoplasma genitalium, Plato, Plato's Revenge, preformationist, proteins, Richard Sternberg, RNA, scientific reasoning, simulation software package, trans-computational, zygote
While not a formal defense, this analysis aims to give readers an intuitive grasp of the reasoning behind Richard Sternberg's Platonic perspective. Source
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New Book Makes the Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and, Brian Miller, Catechism of the Catholic Church, creator, death, Discovery Institute Press, disease, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Father Martin Hilbert, Father Michael Chaberek, Howard Glicksman, Intelligent Design, J. Budziszewski, Jay W. Richards, Roman Catholic Church, Suffering, theistic evolution, theology
Fr. Martin Hilbert explains why the theory of intelligent design, rightly understood, harmonizes perfectly with the Catholic theological tradition. Source
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Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

Baram Elahi, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Faith & Science, John Eccles, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, Nobel Prize, physics, post-death consciousness, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul
In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Source
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