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To Skeptics, Four Challenges on Near-Death Experiences

Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary devote Chapter 6 to addressing various efforts to debunk near-death experiences. Read More ›
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A Disagreement with Shermer on the Ethics of IVF

It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). These are very real concerns. Read More ›
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World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›
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Piers Morgan Hosts Michael Egnor on Near-Death Experiences

Near-death experiences headlined the discussion. But Dr. Egnor made clear that there is much other evidence for the reality of the human soul. Read More ›
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Egnor and Koch Debate the Soul…and Talk Dogs

Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate. Read More ›
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Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›
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Faith, Reason, and the Search for Truth: Stephen Meyer and Michael Shermer

Dr. Meyer calls math mind-independent. We discover it, we don’t invent it. And it’s conceptual, not a physical material thing. Why is that Important? Read More ›
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Can Science Find God? Stephen Meyer vs. Michael Shermer

Humans seem to be drawn in a certain direction toward truth and beauty. Is that an accident of nature? Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification. Read More ›
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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. Read More ›

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