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Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›
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Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›
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Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action

In the first plenary, Stephen Meyer will argue for the existence of an intelligent and transcendent God who has also acted in the course of cosmic history. Read More ›
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Physicist Explains: Why Scientists Play It Safe

On evolution and other subjects, this promotes a stale conservatism, well suited to defending orthodoxies. Read More ›
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Attempt to Explain Away the Beginning of the Universe Fails to Distinguish Imagination from Reality

Here I will address another desperate attempt to avoid a cosmic beginning, this one by astrophysicist Paul Sutter. Read More ›
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Why Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Stopped Being a Materialist Atheist

"It seemed to me that there had to be a conductor to this orchestra. But being an atheist, I didn’t think that was possible." Read More ›
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Thanks to the Sacrifices of Many, There’s Talk of Censoring Us

While heroes of the U.S. Armed Forces have given their lives, the scholars who critique scientific atheism and advance the theory of ID offer of themselves in different ways. Read More ›
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What’s Up with the Science Uprising Mask?

Scanning down through the comments section under his post, I noticed a puzzled remark from one reader. Read More ›
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Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

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

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