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Photo: Michael Egnor at the inauguration of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, by Nathan Jacobson.

A Neurosurgeon and an Engineer Explore Your Body’s Intelligent Design

Dr. Michael Egnor makes the surprising confession that his medical library is full of engineering texts. Read More ›
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Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

There are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems. Read More ›
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Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›
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Our Education Isn’t Free: Let’s Say “Thank You!” for It Together

The culture out there is the violent waves and stormy winds that oppose us, and would plunge us to the bottom of the sea if they could. Read More ›
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Is Webb Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm?

There is a lot of culture and philosophy built into the Big Bang theory as we understand it. Read More ›
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Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Read More ›
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Should Spider Dreaming Really Give Us “Ethical Pause”?

The discovery of REM sleep in spiders is morphing into vast claims that we have “urgent and inexorable ethical obligations” to them and other life forms. Read More ›
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Listen: Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

What parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues”? Read More ›
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Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor: Judeo-Christian Culture and the Rise of Modern Science

Dr. Egnor addresses the claim that the rise of atheism has somehow been a boon to science. Not so, Egnor says. Read More ›

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