06Oct 2025 by Post

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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16Aug 2025 by Post

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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18Jul 2025 by Post

McLatchie Explains Design Implications of DNA Replication

Allan CP, biology, DNA, DNA replication, Evolution, history of life, hypothesis, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, life, natural selection, primitive, sophistication, students, The Science Dilemma, unguided evolution, __featured2
Dr. McClatchie notes its “primitive” nature — meaning, not a lack of sophistication (quite the opposite!) but that life at the most basic level depends on it. Source
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14Jul 2025 by Post

How Did the Designer Do It? 

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Source
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21Jun 2025 by Post

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

"survival of the fittest", biology, cell's, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution “On Purpose”, Faith & Science, final causality, foxes, hares, integrons, Intelligent Design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, Philosophy of Science, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons
I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Source
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13Jun 2025 by Post

As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

Andreas Wagner, biology, Brian Miller, cellular structures, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, eric hedin, Evolution, Evolution News, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, time and space, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg
What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Source
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Source
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05Jun 2025 by Post

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Faith & Science, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, Podcast, Skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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25Apr 2025 by Post

Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

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I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Source
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