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21Feb 2025 by Post

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Source

20Nov 2024 by Post

Protein Designers Explore Sequence Space

A. E. Wilder-Smith, amino acids, Centre for Genomic Regulation, chance, Charles Thaxton, earthquakes, Evolution, Ewen Callaway, Francis Crick, Illustra Media, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James F. Coppedge, No Free Lunch, primordial soup, proteins, Roger Olsen, sequence hypothesis, The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, wind, Wistar Institute

They may call it evolution, but it is all about intelligent design and artificial selection, not Darwinism. Source

26Sep 2024 by Post

My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor

Biologic Revolution, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, briar patch, cancer, Daniel Witt, Francis Crick, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Intelligent Design, Jacques Monod, James Watson, John Searle, mechanistic consensus, Medicine, painting, piano, planets, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific atheism, Stuart Kauffman, telos, The Song of the South, The Undying Soul, UC Berkeley, University of California at San Francisco

It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Source

28Mar 2024 by Post

New Long Story Video Tackles “A Battle of Predictions: Junk DNA”

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Something happened in 2012 that changed the entire debate in favor of the ID-based prediction that DNA would be largely functional. Source

26Feb 2024 by Post

Specified Complexity Made Simple: The Historical Backdrop

Charles Thaxton, complex specified order, English, Evolution, Francis Crick, information theory, Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, Leslie Orgel, letters, On Protein Synthesis, Paul Davies, random order, repetitive order, Roger Olsen, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia, William Dembski

What happened to change the fortunes of specified complexity in the mainstream scientific community? The intelligent design movement happened. Source

24Jan 2024 by Post

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

Al Gore, anesthesiologists, Astonishing Hypothesis, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, brain tissue, consciousness, Dorje C. Brody, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, internal compass, materialism, Medicine, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, Orch Or Theory, organoids, proteins, Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, quantum computation, Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Trinity College Dublin, University of Surrey

Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Source

12Dec 2023 by Post

Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, Christof Koch, consciousness, crabs, dualists, Francis Crick, hard problem of consciousness, John Horgan, Kristin Andrews, Life Sciences, materialism, mind, nervous system, neurological capacity, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, philosophers, philosophy, physiology, The Animal Mind, theists, York University

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Source

02Jan 2023 by Post

Mice Can’t Do Calculus but Their Brains Can

brain, calculus, claustrum, consciousness, cortex, Francis Crick, human brain, Intelligent Design, Kevin Hartnett, mathematics, mesencephalic locomotor region, mice, neuroimaging, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, science, Sridevi Sarma, Stop! signal, wheels, wild mice

Neuroimaging and mathematics showed that a simple Stop! signal in the brain would not allow a mouse to stop as quickly as it in fact did. Source

28Sep 2022 by Post

Origin of Life: Saved by Time?

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Many materialists believe that the severe unlikelihood of the series of events required for the origin of life is not a serious problem. Source

13Jun 2022 by Post

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, Anthony O’Hear, biology, consciousness, cosmogonism, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Crick, How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, The Origin of Species, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Source

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