Tag: meaning

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, awake brain surgery, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, material reality, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, adventure, art, beauty, betrayal, Beyond the Story, Christina Bieber Lake, death, duty, Englishmen, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, James Matthew Wilson, Kenneth Grahame, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, romance, scientism, social media, The Wind in the Willows, TV shows, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

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Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antiquity, atomism, biologists, chaos, Charles Darwin, Chronicles Magazine, City Hall, culture, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Democritus, Eric Metaxas, information, John Zmirak, logos, Los Angeles, madness, materialism, mathematicians, meaning, personal finance, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Seattle, theism, values, West Coast}

Cultural Chaos Has Long Roots, Millennia Before Darwin

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2025

Culture, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As I’m writing this, some rioters have gathered (literally) across the street from our Seattle office, on their way to a “protest” at City Hall. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, artificial intelligence, brain, computational processing, conjoined twins, Denyse O'Leary, disintegration, dualism, free will, gullibility, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, meaning, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, podcast, Research, soul, split-brain surgery, syntax, The Immortal Mind}

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Michael Egnor tackles provocative ideas, making a case that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, brain chemistry, creativity, engineering, Eric Holloway, ideas, information, meaning, Mind Matters, Minding the Brain, natural intelligence, natural processes, novels, Pat Flynn, random processes, Robert J. Marks II, speeches}

The Immaterial Origins of Human Creativity

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 30, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Join Pat Flynn and his guests as they climb the metaphorical mountain of information to address the origins of human creativity. Read More ›

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Author
Wayne Rossiter

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bird vocalizations, birds, bluetooth, Bob Placier, character, culture, fast food, Henry David Thoreau, meaning, Merlin, Neil Peart, Ohio, ornithology, personhood, piggy bank, restaurants, rhinoceros, Rush, wildlife, wisdom}

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

_{Wayne Rossiter
May 16, 2025

Technology, Zoology

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Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 26, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, Darwinism, evolution, faith and science, human dignity, ID the Future, John West, materialism, meaning, nature, podcast, Racism, scientific racism, Western culture}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 26, 2025

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Psychology

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Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution has drained meaning from nature. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinian process, Emily Reeves, evolution, evolutionary process, How Life Works, ID the Future, intelligent design, living systems, machine metaphor, meaning, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, universe, work}

Meaning and Purpose from a Darwinian Process?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Emily Reeves looks at the top sources of meaning in life, including religion, relationships, and work, and evaluates the evolutionary view of each. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Linguistics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, beauty, brain, choice, consciousness, creativity, death, Denyse O'Leary, Emily Reeves, engineers, functional complexity, harmony, human being, immaterial genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, life after death, living things, meaning, Mind Matters, nature, near-death experiences, Philip Ball, physicists, proportion, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer}

What Lies Beyond Death? A Physicist’s Take

_{Eric Hedin
January 28, 2025

Biology, Faith & Science, Linguistics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The very existence of life — the fact that we are here at all to the pose the question — calls for something more than physical nature. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 13, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligent Design
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", animals, bears, books, Casey Luskin, chihuahua, DNA, evolution, fiction, Foresight (book), foxes, genes, How Life Works, intelligent design, machines, Marcos Eberlin, meaning, Oskar Schindler, otters, Philip Ball, purpose, relationships, religion, Science and Faith in Dialogue, self-sacrifice, work, writing}

The End of the Machine Metaphor?

_{Emily Reeves
January 13, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Intelligent Design, Reproductive Science

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Rather than purpose deriving from a purposeless process like natural selection, natural selection can only occur when life itself is the result of purpose. Read More ›