29Jul 2024 by Post

Pig Brains Thought Dead May Be Revived

Andre Sousa, bioethics, brain damage, brains, circulation, death, emergency room, Lucid Dying, Medicine, Nature (journal), Nenad Sestan, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, nutrients, oxygen, oxygenation, pigs, resuscitation, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, Yale University
Pigs are considered useful biomedical models for humans so the implications of such studies sent waves through the field of resuscitation — and bioethics. Source
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03May 2024 by Post

Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent

death, dementia, Faith & Science, grief, human being, Intelligent Design, interviews, Joe Rogan, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, metaphysics, philosophers, Physics, Earth & Space, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, spirit, Stephen Meyer, subjective experience, The Joe Rogan Experience, Tucker Carlson, YouTube videos
Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Source
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21Mar 2024 by Post

A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

atheists, brain, Bruce Greyson, cancel culture, cardiac patients, death, dementia, dissertation, dying, Gary Habermas, imminent death, Kristle Merzlock, Mark Shelvock, medical interventions, Medicine, Minding the Brain, Monika Mandoki, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophers, Psychology Today, Research, terminal lucidity, University of Western Ontario
Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Source
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20Mar 2024 by Post

Secrets of Active Transport Become Visible

active transport, anion, aquaporins, cation, cell membrane, chloride channels, chloride ions, concentration gradient, cornucopia, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator, death, disease, entropy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, ion channels, irreducibly complex structures, life, Maxwell’s demon, natural forces, Nobel Prize, non-life, osmosis, passengers, passive transport, PNAS, potassium channels, residues, Roderick MacKinnon, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selectivity filters, sodium channels, unnatural selection, wildfire smoke, X-ray machines
TSA workers at airports could never boast of this much quality control in their authentication protocols. Source
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18Mar 2024 by Post

Ingenious Artistry in the Origin of Hummingbirds

artistry, Aves, Centropogon, contingency, death, Docimastes ensifer, Ensifera ensifera, Ernst Mayr, Eutoxeres, Evolution, females, genetic drift, happenstance, Heliconia, hummingbirds, Intelligent Design, Lophornis gouldii, males, marvelous spatuletail, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, mutations, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, pain, peacock, phenotype, plumage, red-tailed comet, references, Richard Dawkins, Sappho sparganurus, sexual dimorphism, sicklebills, Stephen Meyer, sword-billed hummingbird, Trochilidae, waste
In contrast with neo-Darwinism, I conclude that an absolutely ingenious artist was at work here, transcending all human abilities, ideas, and powers. Source
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09Mar 2024 by Post

The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

Alabama Supreme Court, biology, colon, Culture & Ethics, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, Medicine, newborn baby, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, reproduction, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University, zygotes
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Source
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02Jan 2024 by Post

Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology

behavior, Big Bang, biological complexity, biology, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Chemistry, convergence, death, Diversity, Douglas Axe, electrostatic laws, environmental conditions, enzymes, equilibrium, Evolution, evolutionary algorithms, first law of thermodynamics, George Ellis, gravity, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, laws of forms, laws of nature, leaves, mass-energy, material mechanisms, natural selection, Nature (journal), nucleotide sequences, periodic table of elements, phenotypic plasticity, physics, proteins, quantum physics, Rope Kojonen, Second Law of Thermodynamics, stem cells, Stephen Dilley, structuralism, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)
The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Source
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