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Happy father having fun while playing with his small son at home.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adjectives, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, Language Acquisition Device, language organ, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, nouns, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, Verbal Behavior, verbs, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, Darwinian evolutionary mechanism, development, DNA, Getting the Facts Straight, ground clearing, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, PBS, Plato's Revenge, podcast, public education, Richard Sternberg, United States}

Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain surge, Bruce Greyson, Charlotte Martial, Christian Jarrett, Jay Ingram, Jimo Borjigin, Mario Beauregard, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Paul Bloom, spaghetti, Susan Blackmore, The Spiritual Brain, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, University of Michigan, veridical, Yale University}

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Taken More Seriously Now

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We are seeing a growth in genuine curiosity, which is a welcome change, and likely to be a fruitful one. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, biologists, Brian Miller, Carl Jung, coincidence, Denyse O'Leary, development, Greek philosophy, ID the Future, immaterial genome, intelligent design, mathematical biology, Michael Levin, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, publishers, Raphael, synchronicity, Synchronicity (book), Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus}

Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atoms, brain, brain function, Denyse O'Leary, human mind, intellect, materialism, materialists, memory, mind, mind states, numbers, octillion, perception, the immaterial mind, universe, vision, wavelengths}

Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

_{Michael Egnor
June 10, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are also logical reasons for thinking that the intellect is immaterial, which means spiritual. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, Dame Cecily Saunders, death, Department of Health and Human Services, Dying Well, families, government, health system, hospice, Humanize, living, palliative care, Palliative Medicine Reports, patients, quality, total pain}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, consciousness, death, delusions, dementia, Denyse O'Leary, Discover Magazine, dreams, family members, hallucinations, hospice workers, illusions, Jordan Kinard, Langone Medical Center, last words, materialists, mind, neuroscience, New York University, rationalism, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, terminal lucidity}

Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Atlantic Ocean, book reviews, Coast Guard, Connecticut, drowning, Great Elm, Lexington Avenue, Long Island, Long Island Sound, National Review, New England, new york, prep school, restroom, Sam Tanenhaus, singing, Southern California, submersible, Titanic, William F. Buckley Jr., Zillow}

Three Memories of William F. Buckley

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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For Buckley on evolution, see here. I’m enjoying the new bio of him very so far, but am prepared to start joining the critics as I read further. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, circle, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, perfection, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiquity, atomism, biologists, chaos, Charles Darwin, Chronicles Magazine, City Hall, culture, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Democritus, Eric Metaxas, information, John Zmirak, logos, Los Angeles, madness, materialism, mathematicians, meaning, personal finance, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, theism, values, West Coast}

Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2025

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›