Intelligent Design | Uncommon Descent

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
Tagged
, Definition of life, Quanta, Robert Hazen}

What is Life?

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June 29, 2022

Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life

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At Quanta: Without a good definition of life, how do we look for it on alien planets? Steven Strogatz speaks with Robert Hazen, a mineralogist and astrobiologist, and Sheref Mansy, a chemist, to learn more. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Daily Wire, Mars}

Mars Curiosity Rover Collects Rock Samples Containing Key Ingredient Of Life

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June 29, 2022

Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design

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Rock samples collected from Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed signs of key ingredients of life, according to a statement by the agency. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Mind
Tagged
, consciousness (evolution), infinity as concept, Michael Egnor, perfection as concept}

Michael Egnor: Is consciousness the sort of thing that could have evolved?

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June 29, 2022

Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind

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Material processes cannot, for example, account for the power to grasp infinity or perfection — which are not material ideas. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
Tagged
, Directed panspermia, Hugh Ross, Reasons to Believe}

Did Life Originate on Earth or in the Cosmos? Part 2

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June 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life

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Dr. Ross describes "the strengths and shortcomings of what [a team of 33 scientists] proposes to be the only naturalistic alternative to an Earth-based origin and history of life." Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Tagged
, Evolution News, Human exceptionalism, Wesley J. Smith}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

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June 28, 2022

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind

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Wesley J. Smith gives us "five reasons to reject granting personhood, or membership in the moral community, to any AI program." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
science education
Tagged
, Terry Scambray}

Why Darwinism can be taught in schools but not ID

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June 28, 2022

Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, science education

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Terry Scambray: Ah, the mantra that Americans are addicted to sugary noble lies about their biological and cultural uniqueness is itself a noble lie that the intelligentsia continually uses against their fellow Americans. It is repeated, for example, when dreadful events occur like the Kennedy assassination or 9/11, the epithet suggesting that Americans can’t stand the truth so they conjure up fantasies which declutter a complicated, messy world full of loose ends. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Animal minds
Ethics
Intelligent Design
worldview
Tagged
, anthropomorphism as science}

At Mind Matters News: Can squirrels really be socially unjust? Check their privilege?

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June 28, 2022

Animal minds, Ethics, Intelligent Design, worldview

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Takehome: Researchers long assumed that people think like animals. But the equation reads the same in reverse: Animals think like people. Folklore soon trumps reality. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, John Loeffler, Live Science}

At Live Science: Why can’t we drink saltwater?

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June 27, 2022

Human evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why did humans — and nearly all other land animals, for that matter —evolve to drink freshwater when saltwater is so much more plentiful? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Design inference
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, catnip, cats, pest control}

Cats do catnip a favor by chewing it

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June 26, 2022

Design inference, Intelligent Design

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At ScienceNews: Compared with intact leaves, crushed-up leaves emit more volatile compounds called iridoids, which act as an insect repellant, researchers report June 14 in iScience. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Neil Thomas}

At Mind Matters News: The battle over the human mind split two great thinkers

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June 26, 2022

Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience

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Philosopher Neil Thomas points out how neuroscience today has undermined a purely materialist account of the mind — an unexpected role but that's what happened. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
Tagged
, Jack Szostak, RNA}

How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

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June 26, 2022

Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life

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How did life arise on Earth? Steven Strogatz speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Jack Szostak and Betül Kaçar, a paleogeneticist and astrobiologist, to explore our best understanding of how we all got here. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Intelligent Design
Laws
Tagged
, abortion, Roe v. Wade}

An op-ed finally makes pro-abortion values clear: Yes, abortion is “killing” and that’s okay!

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June 26, 2022

Ethics, Intelligent Design, Laws

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Abortion advocate: When “pro-life” forces agitate against feticide on the basis that it is killing, pro-abortion feminists should be able to acknowledge, without shame, that yes, of course it is. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Defending our Civilization
Ethics
Intelligent Design
News Highlights
Politics
rhetoric}

DEVELOPING, the US Supreme Court reverses Roe v Wade (is it cry havoc?)

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June 24, 2022

Defending our Civilization, Ethics, Intelligent Design, News Highlights, Politics, rhetoric

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Having returned from a shopping trip to Junction, Jamaica [here for 4x bereavement reasons], I noticed news as captioned. I clip: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/24/supreme-court-overrules-roe-v-wade-in-dobbs/ Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade in Dobbs Decision – Returns Abortion to State Lawmakers WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding in the Dobbs case that the Constitution does not include a right to abortion and returning the issue of abortion laws and regulations to state legislatures. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Supreme Court in Friday’s 5-4 [–> 6-3] decision: >>Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Human evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Sci-News}

At Sci-News: Early Humans were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago

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June 24, 2022

Human evolution, Intelligent Design

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Researchers: The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis — in what is now southeast Britain between 620,000 and 560,000 years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bio-engineering, EurekAlert, photosynthesis}

Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine

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June 23, 2022

Intelligent Design

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Scientists are developing artificial photosynthesis to help make food production more energy-efficient here on Earth, and one day possibly on Mars. Read More ›