3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (453+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is an old favorite of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claim that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (211+ words) Burgess describes the different types of movable joints in humans, and he explains why the “human musculoskeletal system has a level of design sophistication far higher than the best current humanoid robots.” In addition, he recommends how biological design could…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (401+ words) Adami says, “Over the years, molecular biologists have collected many examples of the evolution of new functionality” and he cites a review by Long et al. from 2003. This sentence caused me a little trepidation. Did this review contain a list…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) To put the answer simply, no it’s not isolated at all, including in the context of very recent news stories. I commented on that at Townhall. From, “This American Academic Fabrication Story Has Nothing to Do With Race“: The tragic…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (159+ words) Adami presents the eye as “a very instructive example of a complex trait that has gradually evolved.” He says that it evolves by the gradual addition of parts to an existing functional system. Each part is constructed by reusing and…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (350+ words) In any case, let us review what Farina did in fact say in response to other aspects of my critique. Let’s move on to part two, which is about the bacterial flagellum, the honorary mascot of intelligent design. He starts…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (207+ words) Another example I mentioned in the Behe debunk is the VPU protein in HIV-1. It evolved the ability to counteract part of the human immune system that’s different from other apes, a completely new function, without losing its ancestral function....