Tag: Kurt Gödel

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Epistemology
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, C. S. Lewis, deductive reasoning, Denyse O'Leary, free will, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, human beings, immaterial soul, insight, Intellectus, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, Kurt Gödel, Medieval Model, Michael Egnor, Ratio, rational soul, reasoned thought, Sensitive Soul, sentience, souls, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Vegetable Soul}

C. S. Lewis and the Rational Soul

_{Eric Hedin
August 8, 2025

Epistemology, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Classical and medieval scholars would not be surprised at the mounting scientific evidence for the immaterial soul. Read More ›

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Date
July 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, body, Carthage, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, Evodius, Gennadius, human mind, human soul, immortality, Kurt Gödel, logical positivism, mathematicians, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, North Africa, philosophy, physicians, Plato, Roman Empire, Rome, The Immortal Mind}

An Ancient Argument for the Soul

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions. 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, lawfulness, 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 and 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
Eric Hedin

Date
May 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Alexander T. Englert, Apostle Paul, biochemical activities, biology, creator, David Klinghoffer, DNA, Epimenides of Crete, evolution, Genesis, genome, genomic studies, Günter Bechly, incompleteness theorem, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Kurt Gödel, naturalism, paleontologists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, RNA, Roger Penrose, software, topology, transcription, unguided processes, University of Chicago}

Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 27, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, After Death, Alexander T. Englert, Angel Studios, atheism, box office, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, materialists, near-death experiences, ontological proof, relationships, Thomas Aquinas}

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Central Park, children, computer science, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Gregory Chaitin, ID the Future, incompleteness, Kurt Gödel, Leonard Euler, logic, mathematician, Mind Matters, ontological proof, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

_{Science and Culture
June 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Planetology
Tagged
, addition, algorithms, Andrew Wiles, Anna Karenina, calculus, cyberspace, DNA, double helix, fields, genetic code, Greek, incompleteness theorem, Isaac Newton, Kool-Aid, Kurt Gödel, Leo Tolstoy, mathematician, mechanics, molecular biology, New Hampshire, particles, recipe, Sanskrit, Space Invaders, subtraction, Sudan, TIME, U.S. Constitution, Viagra}

Iterations of Immortality

_{David Berlinski
June 13, 2023

Evolution, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Planetology

14}

The calculus made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. Read More ›

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Date
June 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Brian Greene, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, history, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Michael Keas, Michael Ruse, molecular machines, particle physics, Peter Robinson, philosophy of biology, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, population genetics, punctuated equilibrium, Reductionism, René Thom, science, Science After Babel, Standard Model, Stephen Jay Gould, taxonomy, Tower of Babel, William Dembksi}

New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”

_{Science and Culture
June 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

5}

"Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose." Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 22, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Google Bard, human intelligence, Kurt Gödel, neuroscience, self-reference, sentences}

Breaking Google Bard

_{William A. Dembski
May 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The fundamental problem with these systems is Goedelian. Kurt Goedel showed that formal systems like this are unable to extract themselves from these systems. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 16, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, American Kennel Club, Border Collie, brain, consciousness, Dogs, humans, intelligence, Kurt Gödel, neuroscience, Psychology Today, Stanley Coren, University of British Columbia}

Can a Dog Be Bred to Be as Smart as a Human?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 16, 2022

Anatomy, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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An enterprising electrical engineer, Payton Pearson, thinks it can be done. There are reasons for doubt. Read More ›