Category: Life Sciences | Page 32 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Annaka Harris, brains, Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, Four Horsemen, idealism, illusion, Lee Smolin, materialists, New Atheists, octopus, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Sam Harris, self, universe}

A Conscious Universe?

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June 17, 2025

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Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 17, 2025

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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, animal, behavior, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, justice, mind, near-death experiences, Peter Kreeft, physical world, rational soul, terminal lucidity}

Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 14, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain, brain damage, human beings, human soul, ID the Future, intelligent design, medicine, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, patients, podcast, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 14, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, chimp genome, chimpanzees, common ancestry, common design, computer programmers, Discovery Institute, Donald Trump, Evolution News, geneticists, human genome, humans, National Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), signage, Smithsonian Institution, Supplemental Data, taxpayers, University of Washington}

Challenged on the “1 Percent” Myth, Smithsonian Gives a Meaningless Non-Answer

_{David Klinghoffer
June 13, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Note to President Trump: I find this pretty disrespectful to the people who pay the bills at the Smithsonian. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Biologist’s View, Alexander Tsiaras, Artificial Selection, birth, conception, development, duplication errors, evolution, foresight, geneticists, genotype, Giuseppe Sermonti, growth, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jean Rostand, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Oxford University, phenotype, Yale University}

The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology,” Revisited

_{Granville Sewell
June 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In the last 70 years it was expected by many that all three of Jean Rostand's "cardinal problems of biology" would be solved without design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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, astrophysicists, awareness, Dogs, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, Ethan Siegel, human mind, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, physical reality, physics, sentience, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Nagel}

What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Brian Miller, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, Eric Hedin, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, information, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

_{David Klinghoffer
June 12, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Read More ›

Happy father having fun while playing with his small son at home.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, language organ, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, development, DNA, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, PBS, Plato's Revenge, podcast, public education, Richard Sternberg, United States}

Jonathan Wells Cleared the Ground for Intelligent Design

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 11, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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He had a sense of the immateriality of the genome, much like that of his friend Richard Sternberg. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, Charlotte Martial, Mario Beauregard, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, spaghetti, Susan Blackmore, The Spiritual Brain, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, University of Michigan, veridical, Yale University}

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Taken More Seriously Now

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We are seeing a growth in genuine curiosity, which is a welcome change, and likely to be a fruitful one. Read More ›