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Egnor Uprising: A Neurosurgon Takes on Materialism

One currently common view, eliminative materialism, says there is nothing to the mind except what goes on in the brain. Read More ›
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Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic

“Although higher thought is not localizable to one region of the brain, it may be distributed to neurons throughout the brain.” Read More ›
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Photo: J.P. Moreland, screen shot from a video promoting the book Theistic Evolution, via Crossway Books.

Listen: J. P. Moreland on Mental Health and the Reality of the Soul

What we see in mental health treatments only makes sense if we can trace reality back to an intelligent, purposeful cause. Read More ›
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Photo: Professor Michael Egnor, Stony Brook University, in a scene from Science Uprising.

Egnor: Why Neuroscience Points to a Soul

This is fascinating stuff that flies in the face of the viewpoint treasured and defended by prestige academia and the mainstream media. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jeroen Kransenvia Flickr(cropped).

Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›
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Photo: A leafy sea dragon, by Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Robert Marks on Evolution and Creativity

In our culture, crossing a range of thought disciplines, one views says that AI, entrepreneurship, and evolution can dispense with creativity. The algorithm is all! Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jan’s Archive via Unsplash.

Darwinism as Pantheism or Vitalism

That evolutionary scientists are materialists seems to be belied by the way some of them write. Read More ›
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Photo: Penn and Teller, by Scott A. Hurst [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›
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Mama Bear: Melissa Travis on Parenting, Education, and the Reasons 2019 Conference

Professor Travis has made it her mission to help parents — especially mothers — navigate tough questions about origins and beliefs. Read More ›
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Image: Anaxagoras, in the Nuremberg Chronicle, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Flannery: Intelligent Design Is Older Than You Think — A Lot Older

Professor Flannery discusses the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras (ca. 500-428 B.C.), who was one of the first to articulate an argument for design in nature. Read More ›

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