Category: Metaphysics | Page 5 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 7, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, biological information, high school, Hoover Institution, materialism, Miller-Urey experiment, Peter Robinson, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Robert Jastrow, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, theism, U.C. San Diego, Uncommon Knowledge}

Meyer, Robinson: Yes, Reason and Materialism CAN Be Separated

_{David Klinghoffer
April 7, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Scientific Reasoning

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The great question behind Steve Meyer's new book is whether world-views can be objectively tested. Read More ›

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Author
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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Author
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
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 ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, African Savannah, American Scientist, Aristotle, fire, Fire-Maker series, hands, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, Richard Wagner, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel}

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Metaphysics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, astronomers, biologists, Drake equation, evolution, inflation, meteorites, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, reagents, RNA world, snowflakes, universe, University of Tokyo}

An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

_{Rob Sheldon
April 23, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Metaphysics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, Charles Darwin, Charles Thaxton, Discovery Institute Press, hypotheses, naturalism, On the Origin of Species, positivism, science, scientists, special creation, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, theism, tolerance}

Metaphysical Tolerance: A Discipline for Progress

_{Walter Bradley, Charles Thaxton, and Roger E. Olsen
March 25, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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The quest for truth has never been easy, and has on more than a few occasions been known to make one unpopular. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin on Trial, Darwinian paradigm, Discovery Institute, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Reductionism, Veritas Forum, William A. Dembski}

Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

_{Michael Flannery
November 5, 2019

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›

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Date
November 3, 2019

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, artificial intelligence, computers, dystopia, George Gilder, human intelligence, ID the Future, Jay Richards, John Searle, machine learning, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Seattle, Skynet}

Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI

_{Science & Culture
November 3, 2019

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, accident, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker}

Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification

_{Michael Egnor
October 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics

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What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›