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January 15, 2021

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Physical Sciences
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, 'Oumuamua, aliens, astronomer, Avi Loeb, design detection, design filter, explanatory filter, extraterrestrial life, extraterrestrials, Harvard University, intelligent design, Live Science, Michael Egnor, podcast, solar system, William A. Dembski}

Avi Loeb: “Nature Does Not Produce Such Things”

_{Science & Culture
January 15, 2021

Physical Sciences

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Loeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed 'Oumuamua. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, confirmation bias, COVID-19, elderly people, experts, fear, incompetence, lockdown, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, New York State, nursing homes, pandemic, public health, scientists, skepticism}

Amid Covid, the Deadly Cost of Rule by Experts

_{David Klinghoffer
November 16, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Of course it’s the very same assumption at work in the evolution debate, on the part of those who dismiss the suppression of intelligent design dissidents. Read More ›

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November 14, 2020

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Bioethics
Intelligent Design
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, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, cancel culture, censorship, dissidents, free speech, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Egnor, neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize, podcast, Soviet Union, United States}

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Advice for Intelligent Design Dissidents

_{Science & Culture
November 14, 2020

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

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Solzhenitsyn’s basic advice is simply not to participate with lies, and to refuse to speak what one does not believe. It’s unnervingly relevant counsel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Aristotle, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, emergence, evolution, ID the Future, idealism, instinct, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, natural selection, neuroscience, panpsychism, random mutations, teleology}

An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›

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October 30, 2020

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Evolution
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, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, compassion, COVID, Darwinists, Herbert Spencer, human nature, materialists, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, pandemic, PNAS, political correctness, Sam Harris, SARS-CoV-2, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, theism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses}

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

_{Science & Culture
October 30, 2020

Evolution

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A team of known materialistic Darwinists promotes their helpfulness in solving the pandemic, but to do so, they steal values from outside their toolkit. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, brain, brain chemistry, chewing, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, father, materialism, medical literature, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, morality, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Sabbath, smell, soul, walking, Wilder Penfield}

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain states, Brian Miller, determinism, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Meyer, thought, Wilder Penfield, will}

Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 17, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, computer simulation, David Kipping, Douglas Axe, evolution, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Egnor, Nobel Prize, rain, Scientific American, Twitter}

ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation

_{David Klinghoffer
October 17, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Of course, an 80 percent chance that we live in an intelligently design world compares favorably with only a 50 percent chance. Read More ›

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Date
October 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theism, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, history, intelligent evolution, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, Michael Keas, Plinian Society, theistic evolution, worldview}

How Darwin’s Worldview Shaped Darwin’s Theory

_{Science & Culture
October 15, 2020

Evolution

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It was at Edinburgh University that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, which laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anger, animals, anthropologists, anxiety, Darwinism, Denyse O'Leary, disease, evolution, evolutionary biologists, grief, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, narrative gloss, pain, Philip Skell, Psyche, The Scientist}

The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 7, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›