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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 Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
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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
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
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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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

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hard problem of consciousness

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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 28, 2026
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Cosmology
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
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Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2026
Cosmology, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning
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Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 12, 2026
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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
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Prominent Physicist Wishes Away the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2026
Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Recently Carlo Rovelli fell into an all-too-common trap for creative thinkers. He offered an opinion on a subject outside his discipline. Read More ›
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Daniel Witt
Date
March 5, 2025
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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025
Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
January 27, 2025
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
February 15, 2024
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
December 11, 2023
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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 31, 2023
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Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

Denyse O’Leary
October 31, 2023
Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics
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The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
October 20, 2023
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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
July 19, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain

Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
Date
June 14, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

Denyse O’Leary
June 14, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›

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