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Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture

When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity. Read More ›
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›
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Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›
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Listen: Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

What parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues”? Read More ›
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Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?

Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” Read More ›
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Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one. Read More ›

Near-Death Experiences: Putting a Darwinist’s Evidentiary Standards to the Test

Over the decades, Darwinists have proven themselves to be famously gullible. Think of the fairy tales that have been spun about fossil fragments in various rocks. Read More ›

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