CategoryBiology
How a Biologist Became a Casualty in the War on Reality
If evolutionary biology’s core belief is that everything human can be reduced to animal impulses, truth is merely a survival strategy. But nonsense proved more successful
Mind Rules, Not Matter, Biologists Say — in Journal Article
They argue that simple natural processes cannot explain embryological development. Instead, biology is directed by cognition
How ‘Expedience Ethics’ Busts Through Moral Limits
New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature
Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree
Michael Shermer: Wokeness Poisons Science and I Am No Longer Woke
A number of well-known one-way skeptics and atheists are beginning to feel the consequences of prescribed insufferable virtue
Liberal Prof: Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives
Robert Shedinger’s findings certainly changed his perception of the nature of the controversy over Darwinism
Billboard Chris Asks a Sharp Question About “Evolution”
On a logical basis, Elston’s critique is unanswerable — but logic no longer has the status that it once did. Nor does evidence.
Should ‘Experts’ Decide the Morality of Making ‘Humanized Animals’?
A major new article discusses implanting functional human brain tissue into animals, which could enhance their mental capacities
RNA: The Text Message System Between Cells?
RNA is a very old way that cells encode information so cells across the domains of life can read messages encoded by other cells in RNA — for good or ill
Darwin’s Bold Bluff: He Never Demonstrated His Evolution Theory
He often promised he would demonstrate it. But, as Robert Shedinger shows, when he didn’t, his supporters decided to just act like he had
Nobel Prize Physicist Thinks Consciousness Must Underlie Universe
Brian Josephson, after whom the Josephson effect in electronics is named, hopes to find the answer to the conundrum of consciousness in biology
Researchers: Living Cells’ Cognition Drives Evolution
“Natural selection is cognitive selection,” they say, arguing that cells exhibit meaning and purpose, contrary to Darwinian evolution theories
Biology Needs a Fresh Look — But Is It Afraid of What It’ll Find?
A science writer’s musings make clear that intelligent design is the only reasonable explanation for the human genome’s ordered complexity
Physicists: Perhaps Life Is a Unique State of Matter
A physics gathering next week at the University of Rochester will explore the significance of the fact that life, unlike non-life, needs and uses information
Why Panpsychism (Everything Is Conscious) Is Gaining Ground
Many life forms do unexpectedly remarkable things. It is simpler to broaden the circle of consciousness than to keep on trying to prove that human consciousness is just an illusion
Will a Machine Ever Behave Like a Life Form?
A theoretical biologist developed a mathematical theory in 1991— so far not disproven — that a machine could not replicate life via calculations
How Do We Know If Something in Nature Is Purposeful?
Jonathan Bartlett considered the question recently in Cambridge’s Behavioral and Brain Sciences journal
Researchers: Bonobos Are More, Not Less, Aggressive Than Chimps
Tracking males of both types of ape every waking hour shattered the pop science “hippie ape” illusion
Anti-Aging: Is it Possible or a Pipe Dream?
A brand-new video on the topic of anti-aging technologies from the 2023 COSM conferenceThe Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence is pleased to be able to share the videos from the 2023 COSM conference, now available on YouTube. This annual conference explores the status and the future of our era-defining technologies, from artificial intelligence to electric vehicles to new developments in biotech. Today’s video features a discussion on anti-aging, and whether this is even a possibility. Matt Scholz, CEO of Oisin Biotechnologies, leads a discussion with Vered Caplan, CEO of Orgenesis, and Elena Sergeeva, Neuroscientist at Tufts and Harvard and co-founder of Tiamat Labs, about anti-aging biotechnologies — how genetic reprogramming of cells could negate the effects of aging and even allow a person to stay in perfect health indefinitely, essentially Read More ›