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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
December 16, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", analogy, Aquinas’ Fifth Way, Bernard Carr, DNA, genetic mutations, Gospels, information, intelligent agents, jesus, John Paul II, Michael Chaberek, molecular biology, natural selection, Roman Catholic, specified complexity, Thomas Aquinas}

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
December 16, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Doug Monroe, ID the Future, information, Judeo-Christian tradition, podcast, Praxis Circle, religion, Research, science, scientific revolution, Shannon information, specified information, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer: Did Belief in God Make Modern Science Possible?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 11, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Dr. Meyer explains the difference between mathematical information, or Shannon information, and specified information, a more meaningful type of information. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Closer to Truth, dementia, Georges Lemaître, hearing, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neurotransmitters, paradoxical lucidity, physicalism, Psychology Today, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, vision}

Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
November 30, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Adam and Eve, Brian Miller, creation myth, Darwinian paradigm, evolution, faith and science, Father Martin Hilbert, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Roman Catholic, science, secularism, theology, universe}

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
November 30, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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For too long now, Catholic scholars and many of the faithful have felt compelled to align themselves with a Darwinian account of life’s origins. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, baby, David Klinghoffer, DNA, doctors, education, Evolution News, healing, health, mechanics, mechanism, medical school, medical science, medicine, patients, physicians, science, scientific atheism, soul, womb}

The Machine Model in Medicine

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Metaphysics

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The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
October 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, beauty, conflict myth, empirical data, empiricism, evolution, faith and science, Paul Dirac, physical world, scientific theories, scientism, secularism, Steven Weinberg, testability, truth, water}

What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love

_{Stephen Dilley
October 31, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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It's a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, An Introduction to Systems Biology, cancer, ecosystem, evolution, glycolysis, intelligent design, living systems, methodology, radio, reverse-engineering, Richard Dawkins, scientific progress, Systems Biology, systems engineering, The God Delusion, topology, Uri Alon}

Studying Biology with System Engineering Principles

_{Emily Reeves
October 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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As a biologist, I’ve often wondered what the best way is to integrate engineering ideas in biology research. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Darwinism, empirical science, evidence, evolution, Evolution News, Field Museum of Natural History, Jean Rostand, Jonathan Wells, materialistic science, New York Times, The Guardian}

The Mystery of Evolution May Be Unsolvable — By Materialist Science

_{Granville Sewell
October 2, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Seventy years later we are still not close to explaining the origin and development of life in terms of entirely natural (unintelligent) causes. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
September 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, animals, assisted suicide, Charles Darwin, dementia, euthanasia, future, human life, infants, persons, Peter Singer, rationality, right to life, The Death of Humanity, worldview}

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

_{Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›