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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary biology, fairy tales, humans, just-so stories, nonhumans, Simona Ginsberg, soul, Stephen Jay Gould, storytelling}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Christianity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, dark energy, dark matter, ether, Galileo Galilei, Hebrew Bible, Isaac Newton, John West, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Reformation, Renaissance, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roman Catholic, scientists, theism}

Stephen Meyer Takes Questions, Including: “Has Science Matured Past Its Christian Origins?”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 2, 2022

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

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Granted that the early scientists were Christians, does it follow that science necessarily supports Christianity or any form of theism? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, act, actuality, adults, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, baby, genius, gestation, human being, Jerry Coyne, life, possibilities, potency, potentiality, rational thought, soul, Thomistic philosophy, zygote}

Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

_{Michael Egnor
May 16, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›

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Date
May 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain waves, cause, David Hume, effect, free will, Julian Baggini, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Robert J. Marks II, The Great Guide}

Philosopher Looks for a Way to Redefine Free Will

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May 15, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

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Julian Baggini’s proposed new approach assumes the existence of the very qualities that only a traditional view of the mind offers. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 23, 2022

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Social Sciences
Tagged
, Brian Miller, C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, evolution, faculty, history, intelligent design, law, nerds, postdocs, researchers, scholars, scholarship, scholarships, scientists, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, Unbelievable, Zoom}

Looking for a Future in Intelligent Design Research? Come to the Summer Seminars!

_{Casey Luskin
March 23, 2022

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Social Sciences

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On what seems like almost a daily basis, some new ID-friendly scientist emails us out of the blue to make contact with kindred spirits. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Tagged
, analytic philosophy, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Center for Science and Culture, Columbia University, Darwinism, David Berlinski, evolution, Holocaust, human nature, Humanize, Newton’s Gift, podcast, Princeton University, theoretical biology}

David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

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March 17, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy

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We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alec Ryrie, Arthur Schopenhauer, atheism, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Darwinism, David Hume, doubt, evolution, faith, intellectuals, Ludwig Feuerbach, Mrs. Humphry Ward, novels, On the Origin of Species, Oxford, Robert Elsmere, Victorian England}

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

_{Neil Thomas
March 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, creator, evolution, evolutionists, frigate-bird, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, naturalists, On the Origin of Species, theology, upland goose, Why Evolution Is True}

Why the Main Argument Against Intelligent Design Is False

_{Cornelius Hunter
February 7, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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As Darwin argued, “we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds." Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Christianity, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Epicurus, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, logical positivism, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Orthodox Christians, podcast, rationalists, Richard Dawkins, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Christianity, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, deism, demythologization, Enlightenment, evolution, faith, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Feuerbach, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Wilberforce, secularization, The Essence of Christianity, Thucydides}

For Darwin, Timing Was Everything

_{Neil Thomas
January 28, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Read More ›