28Nov 2025 by Post

Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

Bayesian reasoning, body, brain, COSM 2025, David Deutsch, Faith & Science, Francis Crick, materialist paradigm, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, Skeptics Society, soul, The Astonishing Hypothesis, The Beginning of Infinity
Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies. Source
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27Nov 2025 by Post

Happy Thanksgiving! Here Are the Top 3 Reasons for Optimism on Intelligent Design in 2025

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One reason is the way any materialist explanation of cosmic origins keeps looking more and more implausible. See the new book by Charles Murray on that. Source
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13Aug 2025 by Post

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, immaterial reality, Intelligent Design, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Philosophy of Science, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Source
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02Aug 2025 by Post

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

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A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Source
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25Jul 2025 by Post

Homelessness, Intelligent Design, and the Unseen Realm

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Compared with previous approaches, the new Executive Order reflects a fundamentally different picture of reality. What should we call it? Source
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28Jun 2025 by Post

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

anatomy, art, Complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID The Future, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Life Sciences, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, Podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form
How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Source
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