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July 14, 2025

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To Skeptics, Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

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Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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July 11, 2025

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, abstract thought, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

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July 11, 2025

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

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July 8, 2025

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Bioethics
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Medicine
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, bioethics, children, Christof Koch, conception, Denyse O'Leary, human beings, in vitro fertilization, IVF, Michael Shermer, organ donors, persons, Piers Morgan, Roman Catholicism, soldiers, The Immortal Mind}

A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

_{Michael Egnor
July 8, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine

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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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July 7, 2025

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World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

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July 7, 2025

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Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›

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June 26, 2025

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Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

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June 26, 2025

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As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. Read More ›

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June 26, 2025

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Egnor and Koch Debate the Soul…and Talk Dogs

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June 26, 2025

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Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate. Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid

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June 17, 2025

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Medicine
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Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

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June 17, 2025

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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

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June 17, 2025

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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

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The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›

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Andrew McDiarmid

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June 14, 2025

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Faith & Science
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, atheism, brain, brain damage, human beings, human soul, ID the Future, intelligent design, medicine, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, patients, podcast, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

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June 14, 2025

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His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2025

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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, Bruce Greyson, Charlotte Martial, Mario Beauregard, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, 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

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June 11, 2025

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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 ›