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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, competition, death, Department of Health and Human Services, families, government, hospice, Humanize, palliative care, patients}

As Assisted Suicide Looms, How to Save Hospice

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Often now people approach me after a speech or call in on talk radio to tell me that they do not trust hospice to properly care for their loved ones. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 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

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery}

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Read More ›

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Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, humanity, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, Mind Matters, panpsychism, TED talks, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

_{Science & Culture
May 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, biology, cancer, cells, chromatids, chromosome, DNA, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, spindle assembly checkpoint, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Science, immaterial genome, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scripture, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

Neuroscience Shows the Soul Is Real

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Why do such things send a shiver down one’s spine? I’m not quite sure why, but they do. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, advocacy, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, hospitals, medical school, medicine, patients, Paul Ramsey, policy, United Nations, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

4}

A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›

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Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Botany
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, atheism, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christof Koch, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroanatomy, neuroscience, patients, René Descartes, Sean McDowell, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas}

The Reality of the Soul: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on Sean McDowell’s Show

_{Science & Culture
May 9, 2025

Botany, Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

That spiritual component of the human soul is what survives when a human body dies. Read More ›