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Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, confusion, Daily Mail, endorphins, geometry, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, oxygen, Pam Reynolds, psychology, soul, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 6, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, brain, cave art, Durham University, France, handprints, history, materialists, mind, modern humans, Neanderthal art, Neanderthals, Spain}

Could Neanderthals Create Art, or Were They Not Evolved Enough?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 6, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Materialists have long sought to show that Neanderthals were less mentally evolved than modern humans. Read More ›

People gathered around the red navigation pointer pin. Meeting place concept. A long awaited meeting, a company of friends, acquaintance via the Internet. Event or holiday. Organization of joint trip

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bank account, brain, cerebellum, consciousness, cortex, hammer, human mind, Local, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, password, Real Clear Science, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Are We Looking for Consciousness in the “Wrong Part” of the Brain?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Al of this reasoning assumes that human consciousness — the human mind — is local. Located in one single place. It probably isn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 24, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, carpenter, cause, Elie Feder, fine-tuning, ID the Future, mind, natural phenomena, physics, Physics to God, podcast, purpose, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 24, 2025

Cosmology, Physics

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, agnostics, assassination, atheists, Bible, C.S. Lewis, care, Charles Darwin, Charlie Kirk, Christianity, Christians, colleges, creation, Donald Trump, Eric Metaxas, evolution, faith and science, Friday night, historical reliability, intelligence, intelligent design, Israel, Jews, love, martyr, Massachusetts, mind, nature, Pennsylvania, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sabbath, Scripture, Shabbat, special revelation, Stephen Meyer, theism, universe, Utah}

When Charlie Kirk Talked About Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
September 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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People will be talking about Charlie Kirk’s legacy for a long time. You could start anywhere. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, assisted suicide, bureaucrats, Canada, chemistry, Chronicles Magazine, culture, Darwinian materialism, death, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, free will, human beings, John Zmirak, love, mental illness, Michael Egnor, mind, neurons, neuroscience, physics, soul, The Immortal Mind, United States, veterans}

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Biola University, brain, coincidences, deception, Gary Habermas, materialist explanations, mind, mistakes, naturalistic explanations, near-death experiences, numbers, patients, Sean McDowell, YouTube channels}

Near-Death Experiences Cannot Just Be Explained Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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In some cases, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate, Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, disorder, entropy, evolutionary theory, God’s Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, mind, mindless processes, multiverse, natural selection, natural theology, origin of life, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, podcast, scientific discoveries, teleology, YouTube channels}

Brian Miller: The Basic Challenge to Materialist Origin-of-Life Theories

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2025

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics

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“All natural processes tend to create greater disorder (entropy)…The origin of life requires chemicals to go into a state of both high order and high energy.” Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›