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29Apr 2024 by Post

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

agency, automaton, biology, Chemistry, Complexity, consciousness, decision-making, Evidence, Evolution, free will, fungal mind, genetics, human behavior, hyphae, imago Dei, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, Life Sciences, materialism, memory, Miami University, mind, mycelium, mycology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas P. Money, Ohio, physics, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity

Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source

22Apr 2024 by Post

Battle Butterflies

biologists, Department of Defense, engineers, giant squids, GPS, helicopter, humanity, Illustra Media, Intelligent Design, internal clock, Life Sciences, magnetic field, Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis: The Beauty and Design of Butterflies, Mexico, military, monarch butterfly, Philip Daniel, sharks, solar compass, submarine, whales

Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico. Source

20Apr 2024 by Post

How Earth is Designed for Human Technology

agriculture, Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Brian Miller, Chemistry, cooking, earth, Earth’s surface, Evidence, fire, food, foresight, Geology, gold, hunting, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, iron, Life Sciences, likelihood ratio, multi-cellular beings, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, plate tectonics, soil, technological advancement, Technology, universe, water cycle

Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke. Source

17Apr 2024 by Post

Utah Versus Nature Rights

business, Congress, corporations, Culture & Ethics, currency, environmental movement, environmentalists, Florida, granite outcroppings, Great Salt Lake, human rights, Idaho, inflation, legal standing, legislation, Life Sciences, mackerel, nature, nature rights, Ohio, personhood, pier, pond scum, radicals, rivers, Santa Monica, states, Utah

Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong. Source

26Mar 2024 by Post

Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

astrobiologists, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, DNA processors, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, life, Life Sciences, nucleotide operations, ocean surface, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, processing speed, prokaryotes, supercomputers, Titan supercomputer, United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water, yottabases, yottaNOPS

Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Source

02Mar 2024 by Post

Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

adult stem cells, anti-science, blood, blood cancer, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, consensus science, diseases, embryonic stem cells, gold standard, HIV, Life Sciences, media, Medicine, mutation, Paul Edmonds, Politicians, settled science, stem cells, stem-cell therapies, Stephen Forman, The New England Journal of Medicine

A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Source

17Feb 2024 by Post

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, honeydew, intelligence, John Whitfield, Life Sciences, Lost Animals, Neuroscience & Mind, pheromones, scent signals, South American, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, terrarium, wasps

There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Source

21Jan 2024 by Post

Can Science Tell if Our Cats Love Us?

Carys Matthews, cat psychology, cats, colony, control, Current Biology, Dogs, Felis catus, human reason, humans, Life Sciences, mommy, Neuroscience & Mind, Nottingham Trent University, pack animal, people, pets, prey, sociability, University of Lincoln

A cat is not a pack animal; he is adapted to a solitary life. Usually, he likes us but he doesn’t need us emotionally in the same way as a dog. Source

12Jan 2024 by Post

Tour-Cronin Debate: Does Charisma Carry the Day?

abiogenesis, ad hominem attacks, Dave Farina, debates, early Earth, Evolution, Harvard University, James Tour, Lee Cronin, Life Sciences, origin of life, predictions, roundtable, self-driving cars, shouting

Was Tour overly aggressive at the roundtable? Having watched and then re-watched the event, I don’t think that was at all the case. 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

Category: Life Sciences