10Mar 2026 by Post

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

anatomy, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, Engineering, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Intelligent Design, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, Technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Source
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04Jul 2025 by Post

More on Disguised Religion

atheists, biology, causation, Danni Askini, disguised religion, doctors, dogma, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, medication, methodological naturalism, natural, npr, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, reality, religion, religious language, religious terms, Seattle, supernatural, surgery, theistic evolutionists, trans identity
Not in science or in any other context does one faith get to impose its terms on others. Source
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03Jun 2025 by Post

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

anatomy, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs
Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Source
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15Oct 2023 by Post

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

bacon, Belgium, BioEdge, bioethics, Canada, Cornell University, Culture & Ethics, Franklin G. Miller, human life, internal bleeding, kidneys, Lawrence Faucette, Medicine, Netherlands, organ transplant, organs, Peter Singer, pigs, porcine virus, surgery, The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom Beauchamp, vascular disease
A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Source
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17Sep 2022 by Post

Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

Children’s Hospital, clitoris, Culture & Ethics, Europe, gender affirmation, Gender Dysphoria, hysterectomy, information, Jason Rantz, KTTH, Medicine, mental health, metoidioplasty, Michael Egnor, National Health Service, patients, penis, scrotum, Seattle, sex change, surgery, teenagers, testicles, testicular implants, United States, University of Washington, vaginoplasty
One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Source
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