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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 18, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, creativity, deification, dog, free will, God, gods, human responsibilities, human rights, humans, metaethics, morality, murder, reality, software, The Matrix, transhumanism}

Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

_{Wesley J. Smith
January 18, 2022

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›

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Date
July 14, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Arizona State University, astrobiologists, information, intelligence, intelligent design, Lee Cronin, Lex Fridman, physicists, reality, Santa Fe Institute, Sara Walker}

Sara Walker: Intelligent Design without Intelligent Design

_{Science & Culture
July 14, 2021

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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We’ll be watching Walker’s publications to see how much farther she can move in the direction of ID. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Christianity, Closer to Truth, consciousness, Design Inference, intelligent design, materialism, reality, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, William A. Dembski}

Consciousness Shows that Materialism Is False

_{Michael Egnor
December 15, 2020

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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My friend and colleague Bill Dembski, a leading advocate of intelligent design of the universe and life forms, has done a superb short interview. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 3, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Against the Tide, atheism, Christopher Hitchens, debates, faith, Jerusalem, john lennox, Kevin Sorbo, Oxford University, reality, Richard Dawkins, theaters}

Lennox Versus Dawkins: “Science and Religion as Alternative Explanations”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 3, 2020

Faith & Science

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John Lennox gets to the heart of a great question by challenging Richard Dawkins on the assumption that science and faith cannot coexist. Read More ›

Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Younger

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, baseball, Christianity, chromosomes, common ancestry, Daniel Dennett, faith, first couple, mainstream science, methodological naturalism, Paul Nelson, reality, S. Joshua Swamidass, Sapientia, science, The Genealogical Adam and Eve, theology, Venn diagram}

Adam and Eve and “Mainstream Science”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 27, 2020

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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“The category ‘mainstream science’ sounds plausibly neutral, capturing the sort of objective knowledge to which any well-educated adult should assent.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 11, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Aristotle, bias, cat, Christianity, dog, essence, existence, faith, kittens, reality, Thomas Aquinas, unicorns, Venn diagram}

Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

_{Michael Egnor
October 11, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Bill Nye, brain, cosmic fine-tuning, hallucination, illusion, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, reality, science, Science Uprising, self-hatred, social psychology, Steven Novella, Yale University}

What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella. Read More ›

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Date
June 3, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, biological origins, free will, illusion, Instagram, Jay Richards, love, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, morality, myths, Neil deGrasse Tyson, reality, Richard Dawkins, Science Uprising, scientists, soul}

First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism

_{Science & Culture
June 3, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What if the way the culture directs us to think about our own biological origins is based on a vast, highly influential myth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 24, 2019

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, abstraction, animals, apes, emotion, humans, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, perception, reality, spirituality}

Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 24, 2019

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 1, 2018

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", academics, Adam and Eve, Bible, BioLogos, Brian Miller, Christians, creationism, debate, Dennis Prager, evidence, evolution, evolutionary creationism, intelligent design, materialism, reality, science, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, theology}

No Escape from Theistic Evolution?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 1, 2018

Biology, Faith & Science, Sociology

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“TE thus represents a very deep sink or depression in the landscape of theological and scientific opinion.” Read More ›