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Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›
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Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›
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A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism

Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either. Read More ›
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After Death — A Riveting Glimpse of the Hereafter

There sure are a lot more things about reality than are captured by a narrow naturalistic view. Read More ›
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Live Not by Lies: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design

When one person stands up to lies or oppression, others can become emboldened to do the same. Read More ›
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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
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Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›
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A Neurosurgeon and an Engineer Explore Your Body’s Intelligent Design

Dr. Michael Egnor makes the surprising confession that his medical library is full of engineering texts. Read More ›
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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.  Read More ›
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Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist Agree: The Brain Is Not the Mind

"I had to understand what people were and what the mind was in order to make sense of neuroscience! And I still find that." Read More ›

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