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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Bruce Chapman

Date
April 21, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Associated Press, Christianity, elitism, evolution, George Weigel, intelligent design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholic, secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people}

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

_{Bruce Chapman
April 21, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 16, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, biology, brain tumor, caterpillars, chrysalis, Denyse O'Leary, earth, epicycles, German, Guillermo Gonzalez, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, heliocentric model, Johannes Kepler, Karina Kofman, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, Metamorphosis, methodological materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, neuroscience, planets, Plato, Richard Sternberg, solar system, The Immortal Mind, Tufts University}

Biologist Michael Levin Is at It Again, Now Pushing at the Mind-Brain Equation

_{Daniel Witt
April 16, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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When caterpillars are in their chrysalises, their brains physically dissolve (along with the rest of their bodies) and are rebuilt as butterfly brains. Read More ›

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Author
Martin Hilbert

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, angels, brain, Christianity, Christof Koch, disease, faith and science, hallucination, Heaven, Hell, hospice, jesus, materialism, mind, near-death experiences, providence, Psychology Today, Roman Catholic, Seattle, terminal lucidity, trauma}

The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?

_{Fr. Martin Hilbert, C.O.
April 7, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Such cases may have been around since prehistoric times. Some researchers even suggest that they may have given rise to the popular artistic images of angels. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 24, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, awareness, brain damage, brains, consciousness, information theory, materialism, minds, of, split-brain surgery, St. Augustine, volition, Yair Pinto}

“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?

_{Michael Egnor
February 24, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The scientific obsession with “split minds” is an artifact of our materialist preconceptions about neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 11, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, animatronics, animism, dinosaurs, evolution, evolutionary history, Fantasia, ID the Future, John West, materialism, podcast, rationalism, The Rite of Spring, theme parks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney and Live Action}

Walt Disney’s Views on Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 11, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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On the Magic Skyway, animatronics were used to tell stories of ages past, from the age of the dinosaurs to the arrival of man. Read More ›

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Date
January 6, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, churches, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Metaxas, John West, leaders, materialism, poverty, race, religious liberty, scientific materialism, sex, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Stockholm Syndrome Christians, The Magician's Twin}

How Science Has Been Misused to Corrupt Churches

_{Science & Culture
January 6, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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“Sadly, these ‘Stockholm Syndrome Christians’ have played a crucial role in creating our current cultural mess,” argues John West. Read More ›