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

“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 ›
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How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Read More ›
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The Immaterial Origins of Human Creativity

Join Pat Flynn and his guests as they climb the metaphorical mountain of information to address the origins of human creativity. Read More ›
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Can We Credit Human Creativity to Blind Evolution?

The genius of the human mind requires an external, intelligent source beyond the material world. Read More ›
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What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Read More ›
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Materialism Is a Totalistic Claim — Here’s Why That Matters

There are aspects of the mind that are not generated in the brain. That sounds like a modest claim. Read More ›
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The Return of Natural Theology

Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›
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A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Read More ›
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Michael Behe Answers More Reasonable Objections to Intelligent Design

Behe and Pat Flynn tackle critiques from Alvin Plantinga, Graham Oppy, Russell Doolittle, Kenneth Miller, and others. Read More ›
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Behe Answers Best Objections to Irreducible Complexity

Following the philosopher Alvin Plantinga, Pat Flynn says that some of the attacks on Behe have been hysterical, but some have been more thoughtful. Read More ›

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