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Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, atoms, brain, brain function, Denyse O'Leary, human mind, intellect, materialism, materialists, memory, mind, numbers, perception, universe, vision, wavelengths}

Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

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June 10, 2025

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There are also logical reasons for thinking that the intellect is immaterial, which means spiritual. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, body, brain, consciousness, death, delusions, dementia, Denyse O'Leary, Discover Magazine, dreams, hallucinations, illusions, materialists, mind, neuroscience, New York University, rationalism, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, terminal lucidity}

Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 10, 2025

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Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 8, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptations, bacteria, biology, Carolyn Hovde, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Dustin Van Hofwegen, E. coli, engineering, evolution, ID the Future, innovation, Jonathan Witt, Journal of Bacteriology, microbes, podcast, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Engineered Complexity in the Microbial World

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 8, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Many biological “adaptations” may involve the use of innate abilities or the disruption of existing functions, rather than the creation of entirely new ones. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, courts, flowing, law, natural world, nature, nature rights, Notre Dame Cathedral, Olympics, personhood, pollution, rights, water}

A “Right to Flow”: River Rights for the Seine?

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 7, 2025

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

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Even nonessential activities could be blocked by pretending that the Seine is a person. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anselm of Canterbury, autism, Christianity, creator, Denyse O'Leary, faith and reason, Five Ways, Jesus Christ, Kurt Gödel, Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, Moral Law, prayer, Robert J. Marks II, science and religion, Stephen Hawking, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Sowell, universe}

Egnor: The Architecture of Reality

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In a new podcast discussion with Robert J. Marks, Michael Egnor talks about the relationship between faith and arguments from philosophical reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, genes, Harvard University, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Levin, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University}

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, UNESCO, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Christianity, eternity, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, podcast, skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield}

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, artificial intelligence, brain, computational processing, conjoined twins, Denyse O'Leary, disintegration, dualism, free will, gullibility, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, meaning, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, podcast, Research, soul, split-brain surgery, syntax, The Immortal Mind}

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Michael Egnor tackles provocative ideas, making a case that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. Read More ›