24Oct 2022 by Post

Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

bacteria, biochemistry, biology, computer scientist, emergent properties, Emily Reeves, engineers, Evolution, foresight, hierarchical integration, integration, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jim Esch, materialism, purpose, Reductionism, science, signaling networks, silicon, Systems Biology, Technology
“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Source
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30Sep 2022 by Post

Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

American College of Physicians, Amy Fiedler, Arizona, bioethics, brain death, cardiac arrest, death, doctors, heart, heart death, heartbeat, irreversibility, Jahi McMath, Medicine, MedPage Today, Nebraska, new york, normothermic regional perfusion with controlled donation after circulatory death, NRP-cDCD, organ farms, organ-transplant surgery, science, University of California San Francisco
A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Source
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23Sep 2022 by Post

New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, artists, Baylor University, computers, Creativity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, humanity, Jay Richards, John Lennox, kitsch, materialism, media, Neuroscience & Mind, propaganda, Robert J. Marks, science, Science Uprising, Selmer Bringsjord, spiritual reality, Stephen Hawking, Technology, totalitarianism, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Source
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19Sep 2022 by Post

Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

Alvin Plantinga, bacterial flagellum, biology, blind evolution, blood clotting cascade, Darwin's Black Box, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, Lehigh University, molecular machines, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, Podcast, science
Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Source
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10Sep 2022 by Post

Can Myths About Dogs Tell Us About Their Origins?

Anthropozoologica, Archaeology, burial, Central Asia, College of France, Dogs, domestication, Evolution, Friederike Range, genetics, Germany, grave gifts, Julien d’Huy, Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology, Middle East, myths, rabbits, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, science, signified, signifier, Sirius, South Asia, Southeast Asia, wolves
A French historian studies the relationship between ancient stories told about dogs and information from genetics and archaeology. Source
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08Sep 2022 by Post

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, human exceptionalism, illusion, inner feeling, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, origin of life, philosophy, qualia, red, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, science, scientific explanation, self
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Source
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