03Feb 2026 by Post

Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, Human Identity, ID The Future, materialism, medical literature, Medicine, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold
Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Source
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03Jan 2026 by Post

Free Will vs. the Totalitarian Temptation

Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, atheists, Benjamin Libet, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, ethics, free will, J.D. Vance, John F. Clauser, logic, meat puppets, Michael Egnor, Minority Report, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, physics, readiness potential, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Soviet Union, Stanford University, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, United States, Wilder Penfield, Yuval Noah Harari
If our thoughts and choices really are wholly determined, well then what follows? Source
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26Dec 2025 by Post

No. 7 Story for 2025: World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

4th of July, americans, atheists, blueberries, Christof Koch, CNN, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, faith and science, fireworks, Gaza, Independence Day, Israel, journalists, July 4, Medicine, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roman Catholics, scripture, Seattle, Skeptics, Sunday Times, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos
Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Source
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27Nov 2025 by Post

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

biological complexity, Charles Murray, Conversion, cosmos, Denyse O'Leary, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fornace, Fornace School of Philosophy, Giuseppe Sermonti, Intelligent Design, interviews, Italy, life, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Scuola di Filosofia di Fornace, Stephen Meyer, Taking Religion Seriously, Thanksgiving, The Immortal Mind, The Miracle of Man
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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22Oct 2025 by Post

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

Antony Flew, artifacts, brain, cave art, death, dying, Gary Wenk, graveyard, human beings, Marilyn Mendoza, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Ohio State University, paleontology, periaqueductal gray, presumption of atheism, pseudoscience, psychology, Psychology Today, The Immortal Mind, There Is a God
This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science. Source
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24Aug 2025 by Post

Near-Death Experiences Fail to Confirm Any Single Belief System

After (book), Belief, Bruce Greyson, Buddhism, Christianity, Denyse O'Leary, divine truth, Faith & Science, folk belief, guardian angel, Jacob Vazquez, medical science, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, occult belief, The Immortal Mind, theology, Truthful Hope
People of different faiths tend to have experiences consistent with their culture. What does that say about the reality of the experiences? 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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26Jul 2025 by Post

Investigation of Ancient Burials Yields Surprises

Archaeology, Associated Press, bones, brain, burial, Colin Barras, Evolution, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, Human Origins and Anthropology, Melanie Lidman, Michael Egnor, Neanderthals, New Scientist, Rising Star Cave, skeletons, stereotype, teeth, The Immortal Mind, Tinshemet Cave, Yossi Zaidner
Archaeologists are reporting on a group culture around death from 100,000 years ago, maybe involving both Neanderthals and modern humans. Source
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