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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, brain, chemicals, consciousness, David Berlinski, dualism, electrical signals, faith, Islam, life after death, London, materialism, meat, psychiatry, Rational Religion, Roman Catholic, soul, spirit, Umar Nasser}

Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, anxiety, Christianity, Denyse O'Leary, illusion, J.P. Moreland, mental disorders, mind, Mind Matters, peace, pills, psychiatry, soul, terror, The Stream}

Moreland, Witt: Not “All Body,” but Not “All Spirit” Either

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2019

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The materialist idea that you are “all body” — nothing but matter — is hardly more dangerous than the opposite idea, that you are “all spirit.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, abstract thought, atheism, brain, debate, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Neural Networks, neuroscience, psychiatry, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, antibiotic resistance, babies, doctors, fertility, futile care theory, health insurance, healthcare, medicine, patients, psychiatry, psychologist, religious belief, treatment}

Reproductive MD Association Blesses Useless Interventions

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2019

Bioethics, Medicine

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Public confidence in institutions is eroding, including trust in our healthcare system. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine adds gravity to that slide. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 25, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __edited, euthanasia, lithium, mental illness, psychiatry, suicide}

Drug Our Drinking Water with Lithium?

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 25, 2018

Ethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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If we really want to reduce suicide — and sometimes I wonder if we do — we will increase our focus on mental health as a top-tier societal priority. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assault, assisted suicide, battery, Belgium, crime, culture of death, despair, homicide, medicine, murder, psychiatry, The Guardian}

The Story of Mark van Dongen

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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This is an awful story but it shows how the assisted suicide movement greatly harms the culture and despairing individuals at their times of greatest vulnerability. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 9, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, assisted suicide, depression, doctors, euthanasia, evolution, handicapped, homicide, Jerry Coyne, killing, Netherlands, newborns, psychiatry}

Evolutionary Biologist Now Wants Doctors to Kill Suicidal Depressed People

_{Michael Egnor
August 9, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine

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This is not a slippery slope. This is an ice cliff. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 2, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Caltech, Copenhagen interpretation, Darwinian theory, multiverse, psychiatry, quantum mechanics, Sean Carroll}

Atheist Physicist Sean Carroll: An Infinite Number of Universes Is More Plausible Than God

_{Michael Egnor
August 2, 2017

Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The Many Worlds Interpretation is sort of an extension of the Darwinian creation myth, applied to cosmology. Read More ›