Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

soul

surgery
Photo credit: sasint, via Pixabay.

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›
death
Photo credit: Aron Visuals via Unsplash.

Doctor’s Diary: Till Death Do Us Part

When I was in charge of the Emergency Room at Los Angeles County Hospital, I saw many instances of near-death trauma, yet there was little complaint about pain. Read More ›
seizure
Image credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›
neuroscience 2

Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one. Read More ›
Umar Nasser

Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›
robot
Photo credit: Lenin Estrada via Unsplash.

Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Human Design — and Re-Creating It in Robots

Will robots ever experience empathy or other feelings, or develop a genuine sense of humor? Read More ›
Jay Richards

Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning

Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable. Read More ›
Lawrence Krauss

Three Things Materialists Can’t Do Without

Further requirements could be listed, including some even more horrific than cloning. Read More ›
mental health 2

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

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 ›

© Discovery Institute