Tag: justice

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, animal, annihilationists, behavior, Boston College, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, flame, good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, justice, mind, near-death experiences, number 7, Peter Kreeft, physical world, plant, 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
Michael Egnor

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Chemistry
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, action potentials, Anton Zeilinger, atheism, brain states, cellular metabolism, chance, determinism, evidence, fluid dynamics, free will, government, Jerry Coyne, justice, logic, love, marriage, meat robot, molecules, morality, neuroscience, relationships, truth}

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

_{Michael Egnor
November 14, 2023

Bioethics, Chemistry, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 11, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, abstract thought, animals, arachnids, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, bacteria, bats, biological machines, cats, consciousness, Dogs, dreaming, dreams, flies, Franz Brentano, future, human beings, intentionality, justice, mental states, mind, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, proton gradients, REM sleep, sensory organs, spiders, Thomas Nagel, viruses}

What Is It Like to Be a Spider?

_{Michael Egnor
August 11, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science

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A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 27, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Arjuna Das, atheism, Big Bang, black holes, general relativity, infinity, justice, Matt Dillahunty, mercy, Michael Egnor, morality, singularities, supernatural, Theology Unleashed, Thomas Aquinas, zero}

Are Singularities a Part of Science?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 27, 2021

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Physical Sciences

4}

"Any paper that discusses or describes singularities in the field equations of general relativity is discussing extra-natural objects." Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2021

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, African Savannah, brain, cathedrals, cognitive abilities, DNA, East Africa, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic mutations, gods, Homo sapiens, human beings, human rights, justice, laws, money, nations, Neanderthals, paleoanthropologists, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Yuval Noah Harari}

In Sapiens, Admissions and Overstatements about Human Evolutionary Origins

_{Casey Luskin
July 22, 2021

Human Origins and Anthropology

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Harari’s conjecture — “There are no gods” — forms the very basis for everything he says in the rest of the book. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Athena, cargo cult, Chernobyl, chimpanzees, Darwinism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, DNA, equality, equity, Europe, intelligent design, Ivy League, John Zmirak, journalists, justice, mutations, natural selection, Queer Theory, The Stream, theology, wokeness}

Zmirak: “Darwin Addles the Mind”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 28, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The taproot in question is Darwinism, which “addles the mind” of the Woke elite, the “Ivy-schooled primitives,” whom Zmirak compares with cargo cults. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, atheism, Ball State University, Big Tech, Canceled Science, censorship, China, Christian colleges, computational biology, creation science, creationism, customers, East Coast, employers, equality, Eric Hedin, freedom, freedom from religion foundation, intelligent design, Israel, Jerry Coyne, justice, lockdown, punishment, race, religion, reward, S. Joshua Swamidass, scientists, social credit, The Boundaries of Science, Wall Street Journal, Washington University}

In the Name of “Academic Freedom,” a Scientist Calls for Punishing Creationists

_{David Klinghoffer
March 11, 2021

Scientific Freedom

5}

The practice has a sordid history. There’s always a rationale — for example, in labeling Israeli businesses, or those doing business with Israel, to be avoided. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
January 20, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Big Bang, criminals, Dave Rubin, evolution, humans, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, justice, materialism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, punishment, robots, scientists, Stephen Hawking, Why Evolution Is True}

From Materialists, More Reductio ad Absurdum

_{Granville Sewell
January 20, 2019

Evolution

3}

Quite honestly, I think we should be grateful to people like Coyne and Hawking, who carry materialism to its logical conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, choice, crime, evil, free will, genes, good, human dignity, Jerry Coyne, justice, morality, neurotransmitters, punishment, totalitarianism}

Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
January 17, 2019

Bioethics

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Without free will, there is no guilt and there is no innocence. There are merely animals to be managed. Read More ›