2019
SETI: Four origin of life scientists imagine the beginning
Why some biologists are beginning to question the “biological species concept”
Can one apply the “Goldilocks Principle” of fine-tuning to DNA structure?
A new bug for Darwin’s finches: Mating disrupted by parasite
Cooking with starches 100 000 years ago and more
Darwinism must have bypassed Chernobyl
Cells from a billion years ago remarkably preserved
Why scientists tend to dismiss well-supported ideas that lie outside the paradigm
Is a 3-D printer alive?
At one time, witchcraft was considered a Halloween hoot…
But how can evolution be “wrong”?
J. P. Moreland reasons his way to evidence for the soul
Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins
Logic & First Principles, 22: Is there room for fresh (hylemorphically shaped?) thinking on minds, souls and bodies?
In recent weeks, UD has been looking at the logic of being of minded intelligence, especially, embodied intelligence. One of the pivotal insights is outlined by Victor Reppert — pardon a bit of review: . . . let us suppose that brain state A [–> notice, state of a wetware, electrochemically operated computational substrate], which is token identical to the thought that all men are mortal, and brain state B, which is token identical to the thought that Socrates is a man, together cause the belief [–> concious, perceptual state or disposition] that Socrates is mortal. It isn’t enough for rational inference that these events be those beliefs, it is also necessary that the causal transaction be in virtue of Read More ›