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Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
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, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Daniel Witt

Date
August 12, 2025

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Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, __recommended, ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Whitney Gilkey, Edward B. Davis, Edwin Brant Frost, Edwin Grant Conklin, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Henri Bergson, intelligent design, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, materialism, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, modernists, pamphlets, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets, Robert Andrews Millikan, Samuel Christian Schmucker, schools, Shailer Mathews, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Divinity School}

Scopes: Same Debate, Different World

_{Daniel Witt
August 12, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Understandably, the Scopes trial is often viewed through the lens of current debates surrounding evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, Adolf Eichmann, Antifa, bank robbers, Budapest, Center for Science and Culture, Christian leaders, Christians, culture, esteem, Federal Building, Francis Collins, German, golfing, Hannah Arendt, Holocaust, homelessness, Hungarian, ideology, intelligent design, Jewish Councils, John West, Judenrat, Judenrat Syndrome, materialism, police sirens, prestige, riots, Seattle, Seattle Pacific University, social programs, Stephen Meyer, Stockholm, Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Sweden, welfare, Yiddish}

Hannah Arendt and Stockholm Syndrome

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2025

Ethics, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Will Spencer talked with John West about his book on the coopting of Christian leaders. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, brain, Cities of the Absurd, Kenneth Francis, Mario Beauregard, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, narrative, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, New English Review, paradoxical lucidity, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Richard Dawkins, short stories, skepticism, soul, split brain, The Immortal Mind}

From Science, New Respect for Non-Materialist Understandings of the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Yes, there are still people who insist that science can only consider material causes and concepts. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Education
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, Apologetics Profile, Casey Luskin, chemistry, communication, Daniel Ray, evolution, high school, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kristin Marais, materialism, podcast, science, science communicators, students, teachers, teleology}

Losing the Plot: How Materialism Can Blind Scientists to Purpose

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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How a materialistic worldview causes many scientists and science communicators to lose the plot and forget what science is all about. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 18, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, biology, cancer, Evolution News, faith and science, humans, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, mechanism, mechanistic view, medical school, molecular level, oncologists, organisms, physical law, physical world, podcast, purpose, random processes, Stephen Iacoboni, Stuart Kauffman, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, Thomistic philosophy}

Stephen Iacoboni: Finding Purpose in Medicine and Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 18, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Ultimately, Dr. Iacoboni aims to help his fellow physicians escape the “suffocating boundaries of mechanism and materialism.” Read More ›

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Author
Tova Forman

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arts Education Policy Review, autism, Bernhard Fink, brain, brain activity, break dancing, Charleston, Constantina Theofanopoulou, dance movement therapy, dancers, dancing, forethought, foxtrot, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, Kitsap Kats, line dancing, materialism, music, natural selection, neural signaling, neuroplasticity, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Sadye Paez, Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, Teresa Borowski, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Forman
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, Communism, Conservation of Information, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, democracy, freedom, George Weigel, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Paul Nelson, Poland, Robert Stackpole, social realism, theistic evolution, theology, Tree of Life, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Pact, William A. Dembski, World War II}

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
July 9, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bill Macready, Bruce Chapman, coconuts, computational reductionism, David Wolpert, Didascalicon, digital wellness, Discovery Institute, education, educators, entrepreneurship, faculty, Hugh of Saint Victor, machine intelligence, materialism, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Reductionism, Robert J. Marks II, Seattle, Steven Buri, students, synthetic fibers, technology, Texas A&M University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center

_{William A. Dembski
July 7, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity. Read More ›