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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Jonathan Witt

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Neuroscience & Mind

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David Klinghoffer
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July 25, 2019
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019
Neuroscience & Mind
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Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›
Computer Planet
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David Klinghoffer
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July 24, 2019
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Bioethics
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An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference

David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2019
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology
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Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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July 22, 2019
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Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma 

David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019
Neuroscience & Mind
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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›
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July 17, 2019
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Biology
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
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Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge — Purpose and Essence in Nature

Science and Culture
July 17, 2019
Biology, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t. Read More ›
Jay Richards
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David Klinghoffer
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July 16, 2019
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Biology
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Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning

David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2019
Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss
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David Klinghoffer
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July 10, 2019
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Bioethics
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Three Things Materialists Can’t Do Without

David Klinghoffer
July 10, 2019
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences
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Further requirements could be listed, including some even more horrific than cloning. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor
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July 9, 2019
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Biochemistry
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

Michael Egnor
July 9, 2019
Biochemistry, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology
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It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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July 8, 2019
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2019
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind
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A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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July 7, 2019
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Medicine
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Moreland, Witt: Not “All Body,” but Not “All Spirit” Either

David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2019
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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The materialist idea that you are “all body” — nothing but matter — is hardly more dangerous than the opposite idea, that you are “all spirit.” Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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July 5, 2019
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Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019
Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics
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Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella. Read More ›

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