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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, butterfly, Christianity, eliminative materialism, fine-tuning, First Cause, France, Garden of Eden, God the Science the Evidence, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophers, Roman Catholic Church, Sunday Times, The Spiritual Brain, UnHerd, universes}

Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book raises a stark question. Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science & Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinism, evolution, faith and science, intelligent design, Logan Gage, Ohio, philosophers, Roman Catholicism, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy}

Logan Gage: Intelligent Design in a Thomistic Perspective

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Gage warns against “psychologizing those that disagree with us. Especially as philosophers, we don't like to do this." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, diversity, ID the Future, intelligence, inventiveness, Labor Day, mathematicians, origin of life, philosophers, physics, podcast, Science After Babel, scientific reductionism, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, families, free will, jobs, machines, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, antiquity, brain, Christof Koch, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, eliminative materialism, evolutionary psychology, Four Horsemen, free will, human consciousness, human mind, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, philosophers, promissory materialism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, technology, The Immortal Mind}

Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, art, beauty, death, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, scientism, social media, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

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Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancient world, animals, brain, Denyse O'Leary, genome, human beings, immaterial reality, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers, philosophy, plants, Plato’s Revenge, reason, soul, The Federalist, The Immortal Mind, will, William James}

A Reviewer Assesses Dr. Egnor on the Mind: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In two different areas of research — the nature of the mind, and the nature of genome — science points us to the existence of an immaterial reality. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bard, ChatGPT, computer science, Grok, ID the Future, intelligent design, large language models, mathematicians, mathematics, philosophers, philosophy, SETI, The Design Inference, William A. Dembski}

On Intelligent Design, Is AI Teachable?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2025

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Can large language models rise above the biases of sources like Wikipedia to help level the playing field for intelligent design? Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Age of Exploration, animals, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, civilization, Darwinism, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, French Revolution, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Monboddo, Michael Flannery, P.T. Barnum, philosophers, Robert Richards, University of Chicago, worldview}

Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

_{Daniel Witt
May 28, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated. Read More ›