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Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, archaea, bacteria, cells, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, books, dark matter, dust, electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, Energy, gravitational waves, immaterial mind, intelligent agency, intelligent design, mind, painting, physical universe, spirit, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

_{Eric Hedin
April 9, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, brain, causation, consciousness, feelings, logic, mind, right, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, thinking, thoughts, wrong}

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

_{Science & Culture
March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anger, Christof Koch, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, livestock, mind, moral choice, philosophers, soul}

Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›

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Author
Sean Mixon

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, conference, consciousness, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, events, human mind, materialism, mind, rationality, science and faith}

Dallas Conference: How Consciousness Refutes Materialism and Supports Theism

_{Sean Mixon
January 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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I am excited to present to you at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on February 17. I'll be talking about the "Uniqueness of the Human Mind." Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
January 4, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Ancient Rome, Bible, Cicero, design intuition, history of id, intelligence, intelligent design, machinery, mind, nature, universe}

Cicero on Intelligent Design — Sound Familiar?

_{Nancy Pearcey
January 4, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Yesterday was Cicero's birthday. To celebrate, here's my favorite quote from the Roman philosopher. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
December 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Aristotle, body, causation, Christianity, DNA, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Pierre-Simon Laplace, proteins, René Descartes, ribosomes, science of purpose, scientism, soul, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Aquinas, William A. Dembski}

To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, darkness, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, eyes, human flourishing, information, intelligent design, memory, mind, muscles, nervous system, obesity, rapid eye movement, sleep, St. Louis, stimuli, wakefulness, Washington University}

Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift

_{Eric Hedin
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down? Read More ›