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Michael Egnor

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Talking Animals and Human Exceptionalism

Whether in Warner Bros. cartoons, old jokes, or on Twitter, a good deal of humor has been derived from supposing that animals could talk. Read More ›
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Scott Adams: Intelligent Design (Of a Sort!) Is “Close to 100 Percent” Certain

Notice once again that you don’t have to be a religious believer to see through the charade that evolutionary theory has got everything all figured out. Read More ›
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Image: Scene from Hamlet, by Coke Smyth [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons.

Egnor — Introducing the Aristotelian Neuroscientist

Considering Hamlet, the Aristotelian can appreciate both the physiology and the drama to which the mechanist is blind. Read More ›
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Photo: A bust of Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck Society, Germany, via Wikimedia Commons.

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Joel Penner, via Flickr (cropped).

Melissa Cain Travis Introduces the “Maker Thesis”

Science reveals a transcendent mind, and mind enables science.  Read More ›
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A Strange Way of Speaking About the Brain

A peculiar habit of disassociation is widespread among many who study the brain. Read More ›
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Behe’s Irreducible Complexity Validated by Chemistry Nobel

Darwinist Jerry Coyne misunderstands design science. Intelligent design is two scientific inferences. Read More ›
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Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›
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Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›
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Nathan Lents Is Back; Still Wrong About Sinuses 

The interaction with Lents is of interest because it provides an opportunity to look again, in some detail, at a fascinating illustration of design in action. Read More ›

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