Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

body

soul
Image licensed via Adobe Stock.

What Is Primary: Mind or Matter? 

The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›
consciousness
Image licensed via Adobe Stock.

Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Read More ›
Moreland
Image credit: Wiley Blackwell.

Coming Soon: The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism 

J. P. Moreland has written prolifically on the soul and the mind/body issue in the past. In this great volume, his views are cogently articulated and defended. Read More ›
Aristotle
Photo: Bust of Aristotle, Museo Nazionale Romano, by Nick Thompson, via Flickr (cropped).

Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Read More ›
intelligence
Photo credit: ALAN DE LA CRUZ, via Unsplash.

If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?

The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect. Read More ›
surgery
Photo credit: sasint, via Pixabay.

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
chocolate sundae
Photo credit: Maksym Kozlenko [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

To Refute Materialism, Consider a Chocolate Sundae

Either a mind through free will alone may cause scientifically measurable change in the physical world, or we are forced back to embrace blather. Read More ›
Nancy Pearcey
Photo: Nancy Pearcey speaking at the Heritage Foundation (screen shot), via YouTube.

Nancy Pearcey: Love Your Designed Body, Made for a Purpose

Who — or what — determines what we are? Why does it matter? And how should we act in light of the answers to those questions? Read More ›
Santa_Maria_della_Steccata_Parma_-_Dome

New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute