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Michael Egnor

Michael-Egnor
soul
Photo: Professor Michael Egnor, Stony Brook University, in a scene from Science Uprising.

Egnor: Why Neuroscience Points to a Soul

This is fascinating stuff that flies in the face of the viewpoint treasured and defended by prestige academia and the mainstream media. Read More ›
Michael Egnor
mind denial
Photo: Professor Michael Egnor, Stony Brook University, in a scene from “Mind: The Inescapable I,” second episode of Science Uprising.

Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial

“We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne. Read More ›
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Fake Science

First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism

What if the way the culture directs us to think about our own biological origins is based on a vast, highly influential myth? Read More ›
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More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jeroen Kransenvia Flickr(cropped).

Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›
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Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.” Read More ›
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Photo: Photo: A tornado, near Elie, Manitoba, Canada, by Justin1569 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law

I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.” Read More ›
Science Uprising
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Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3

The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. Read More ›
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Photo: Penn and Teller, by Scott A. Hurst [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›
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Egnor
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Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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