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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, autism, brain, brain activity, dancing, forethought, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, materialism, music, natural selection, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Levengood
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, theistic evolution, theology, Tree of Life, Warsaw, 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
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bruce Chapman, coconuts, computational reductionism, David Wolpert, Discovery Institute, education, educators, entrepreneurship, faculty, machine intelligence, materialism, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Reductionism, Robert J. Marks II, Seattle, Steven Buri, students, 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 ›

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Date
July 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, BioLogos, cellular complexity, Christianity, Discovery Institute Press, inference to the best explanation, integration, Johannes Kepler, materialism, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Minding the Brain, natural theology, open-mindedness, philosophical naturalism, presuppositions, Robert Boyle, Robert J. Marks, secondary causation, spontaneous generation, theism}

Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

_{Science & Culture
July 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", biology, cells, Chance & Necessity, Daniel Witt, final cause, foxes, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, purpose, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons}

From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, consciousness, dualism, eliminative materialism, Giulio Tononi, hardware, Hedda Hassel Mørch, illusion, Integrated information theory, materialism, matter, Nautilus, panpsychism, particles, physicalism, software}

Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, clinical death, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, ID the Future, journalists, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, promissory materialism, The Immortal Mind}

Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 17, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, astrophysicists, awareness, Dogs, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, Ethan Siegel, human mind, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, physical reality, physics, sentience, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Nagel}

What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atoms, brain, brain function, Denyse O'Leary, human mind, intellect, materialism, materialists, memory, mind, numbers, perception, universe, vision, wavelengths}

Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

_{Michael Egnor
June 10, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are also logical reasons for thinking that the intellect is immaterial, which means spiritual. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›