consciousness Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date March 15, 2024 CategoriesFine-tuningNeuroscience & MindOrigin of LifePhysical Sciences Tagged , Anthropic Principle, Christof Koch, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, human consciousness, Integrated information theory, James Tour, materialist theories, natural selection, neuroscience, neuroscientists, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, scientists, Teilhard de Chardin, third rail Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness Denyse O’Leary March 15, 2024 Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences 6 Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›
Thomas Aquinas Type post Author Ann Gauger Date April 18, 2023 CategoriesBiologyCosmologyEvolutionFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignMetaphysicsPhysics Tagged , Apostle Paul, biosphere, Brown University, cognitive dissonance, creation, creator, DNA, Edward Feser, evolution, evolutionary biology, faith and science, Genesis, Georgetown University, Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur, In the Beginning, intelligent design, Jesuits, John Haught, Kenneth Miller, life, materialism, molecular biology, monogenesis, Pope Benedict XVI, quantum indeterminacy, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, scientific materialism, Scripture, Stephen Barr, Teilhard de Chardin, theistic evolution, theistic evolutionists, theologians Shall We Baptize Darwin? A Catholic Biologist Reflects Ann Gauger April 18, 2023 Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Physics 13 Theistic evolutionists are baptizing a theory first composed by Darwin as a substitute for the doctrine of special Creation. Read More ›
THS 10 Type post Author James A. Herrick Date August 24, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsTechnology Tagged , C.S. Lewis, Internet, magic, mysticism, Nick Bostrom, noosphere, Olaf Stapledon, Ray Kurzweil, Ronald Bailey, Science, Teilhard de Chardin, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Singularity is Near, transhumanism, University of Oxford C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism James A. Herrick August 24, 2020 Bioethics, Technology 14 The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies. Read More ›
forest Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date January 31, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __edited, biologists, Brian Miller, evolution, evolutionists, failed predictions, forest, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, naturalism, Paul Nelson, podcast, scientific theories, Teilhard de Chardin, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, universal common descent A Forest, Not a Tree? Nelson Asks Why Universal Common Descent Needn’t “Pay” for Failures David Klinghoffer January 31, 2020 Evolution 2 Maybe life is not a tree but, as biologists are finding to be increasingly likely, a forest or an orchard. But then what are the consequences for strict naturalism? Read More ›
