Brainwave_(50652458193) Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 11, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , brain, consciousness, dizzy spells, doctors, epilepsy, epiphanies, free will, grand mal seizures, human mind, Joan of Arc, material cause, Michael Egnor, mind, Mother Teresa, neurosurgeons, panic attacks, Psyche (website), Saint Paul, seizures, unconsciousness, Webb Wright From Seizures, a Healthy Respect for the Brain Denyse O’Leary April 11, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 4 Webb Wright’s roundup of historical approaches to epilepsy is not very insightful, unfortunately. Read More ›
Aristotle Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 6, 2023 CategoriesBiologyNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , amino acids, analgesic, Aristotle, arthritis, body, causation, chirality, documentary, efficient cause, final cause, formal cause, Francis Bacon, free will, individuation, Johns Hopkins University, libertarian free will, material cause, matter, mind, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, sculptor, sculpture, Sean Carroll, statue, trailer Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?” Michael Egnor March 6, 2023 Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics 6 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 ›
oak tree Type post Author Michael Egnor Date October 22, 2019 CategoriesFaith & ScienceMetaphysics Tagged , __edited, accident, acorn, Aristotle, atheism, causation, cellular metabolism, chance, complexity, Darwinism, deism, efficient cause, evolution, Fifth Way, final cause, Five Ways, formal cause, intelligent design, material cause, natural science, nature, oak tree, order, patterns, purpose, specification, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, watchmaker Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Proof from Specification Michael Egnor October 22, 2019 Faith & Science, Metaphysics 10 What’s remarkable in nature is not so much that nature follows complex patterns, but that it follows any pattern at all. Read More ›
dice-rolling-in-air-stockpack-adobe-stock-934697508-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Jay W. Richards Date April 2, 2012 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , __nedited, Alvin Plantinga, appearance of design, Asa Gray, BioLogos, Christianity, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, defining science, defining terms, Elliott Sober, equivocation, evidence, evolution, explanations, failure to elucidate, fallacy of ambiguity, flagellum, integration, intelligent design, material cause, Michael Behe, mutations, naturalism, Normal Science, point mutations, random, randomness, reductio ad absurdum, Scientia, scientific theory, teleology, theism, Thomas Kuhn, Where the Conflict Really Lies What’s in a Word? “Randomness” in Darwinism and the Scientific Theory of Evolution Jay W. Richards April 2, 2012 Evolution, Faith & Science 28 This is the third in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga's important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies. Read More ›
