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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 19, 2021

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, atheism, Christian colleges, Christianity, computational biology, creation science, Darwinism, Darwinists, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, multiverse theory, Nobel laureates, North Korea, Richard Feynman, S. Joshua Swamidass, scientific revolution, South Korea, Soviet Union, United States, Wall Street Journal}

Joshua Swamidass and the Cancellation of Christian Colleges

_{Michael Egnor
March 19, 2021

Evolutionary Psychology, Science Education

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The only way to truth in science is to permit and even encourage challenges to orthodoxy. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 18, 2021

Categories
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blood, central nervous system, conjoined twins, DNA, ears, genes, heart, intelligent design, kidney, kidneys, lungs, neighbors, ribosomes, soul, spinal cord}

Are Human Brain Transplants Even Possible?

_{Michael Egnor
March 18, 2021

Linguistics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I believe the intelligent design perspective may offer insight into the peculiar inability of central nervous system tissue to regenerate. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 12, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, cosmic fine-tuning, evolution, multiverse, Neurologica, Phillip Goff, probability, Steven Novella}

We Don’t Live in a Multiverse Because the Concept Makes No Sense

_{Michael Egnor
March 12, 2021

Physical Sciences

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Novella and Goff invoke “multiple everything” while at the same time defining “everything” in a way that precludes observation. Nonsense has its uses. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, soul, spinal cord, Wired}

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

_{Michael Egnor
March 11, 2021

Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 2, 2021

Categories
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, astrophysics, atheism, Big Bang, Chicago, cosmic fine-tuning, multiverse, probabilities, Star Wars, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

“Multiverse” Myth Frees Atheists from Real Science

_{Michael Egnor
March 2, 2021

Physical Sciences, Physics

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Deniers of God’s existence have clung to one main gambit to avoid the design implications of the fine-tuning of the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 3, 2021

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alice in Wonderland, Avi Loeb, black hole, earth, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Mars, Milky Way, Nobel Prize, Singularity, solar system, supernatural}

Is the Designer a Black Hole?

_{Michael Egnor
February 3, 2021

Mathematics, Physical Sciences

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Supernatural agents that exert natural effects are perfectly valid objects of scientific inquiry. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Tagged
, 9/11 attack, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, atheism, biological information, Charles Darwin, Christianity, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Edward Jenner, emergency room, epidemiology, evolution, Harvard University, Ignaz Semmelweis, Louis Pasteur, narrative gloss, neurosurgeon, nurses, pagans, pandemic, Paul Ehrlich, plague, Rodney Stark, unintelligent processes}

Merry Christmas! #8 Story of 2020: Upstairs into the Plague

_{Michael Egnor
December 25, 2020

Evolution, Medicine

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Epidemiology, to which Darwinism is a “narrative gloss,” is an old and vigorous science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Christianity, Closer to Truth, consciousness, Design Inference, intelligent design, materialism, reality, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, William A. Dembski}

Consciousness Shows that Materialism Is False

_{Michael Egnor
December 15, 2020

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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My friend and colleague Bill Dembski, a leading advocate of intelligent design of the universe and life forms, has done a superb short interview. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, brain hemispheres, consciousness, dualism, human brain, materialism, mice, mind-brain debate, Neurologica, neuroscience, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Has Neuroscience “Proved” that the Mind Is Just the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
December 11, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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Yale's Steven Novella has been trying to sell his materialist ideology in the guise of neuroscience for more than a decade. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

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Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›