Tag: The Lord of the Rings

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Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheists, birth canal, brain-stem aneurysm, carbon-dioxide spikes, Carl Sagan, Carol Zaleski, clinical death, Denyse O'Leary, endorphins, Gandalf, Howard Storm, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, My Descent into Death, near-death experiences, neurosurgery, Pam Reynolds, podcast, psychedelic chemistry, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Spetzler, skull, Stony Brook University, temporal-lobe seizures, The Immortal Mind, The Lord of the Rings, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

_{Science and Culture
June 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, music theory, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, C.S. Lewis, Foresight (book), Gandalf, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, materialism, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, physicalism, Reductionism, star, sun, systems biologists, Systems Biology, The Lord of the Rings, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader}

Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design

_{Daniel Witt
March 18, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The word “reductionism” is thrown around a lot, but it can mean several different things. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 5, 2023

Categories
Biochemistry
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Casey Luskin, Darwinism, data points, facts, Frodo, gravitation, ideas, intelligence, intelligent design, Issac Newton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion, living cell, nothing buttery, professors, students, The Lord of the Rings, tyranny, universe, wisdom}

As a Physics Professor, I Can Tell You: Wisdom Transcends Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
December 5, 2023

Biochemistry, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

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The fine-tuning of the physical parameters, forces, and laws of nature could hardly have been established by a bottom-up approach. Read More ›

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Author
John Mark Reynolds

Date
November 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis, Commentary, Darwinism, Gandalf, Genesis, Hamlet, Harvard University, logic, logos, Merlin, naturalism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, Socrates, Supreme Court, That Hideous Strength, The Lord of the Rings, U.C. Berkeley, William Shakespeare}

Phillip E. Johnson: A Reading List from Gandalf

_{John Mark Reynolds
November 9, 2019

Bioethics, Faith & Science

5}

Watch an interview when he was healthy and you will see a man who swam in English like a dolphin loved water. Read More ›

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Author
John Mark Reynolds

Date
November 5, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, Biola University, C.S. Lewis, email, Gandalf, Houston, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mongolia, Mount Doom, orthodoxy, Phillip E. Johnson, Plato, religion, The Lord of the Rings, University of Chicago, University of Rochester}

Phillip E. Johnson: Gandalf Has Gone to the West

_{John Mark Reynolds
November 5, 2019

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Phillip E. put it this way: “Take the ring to Mount Doom where only a miracle will save you and see.” This is one of the key lessons he taught me: dare to win. Read More ›