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

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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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No. 10 Story for 2025: Wikipedia Co-Founder on Arguments for God

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I was impressed by a lecture by philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, who presented versions of the cosmological argument and the fine-tuning argument. Source
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Charles Murray, Among Others, Shows the Impact of Our Work

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As Stephen Meyer, John West, Steve Buri, and others got up and spoke, there was an odd shaking in the floor and windows. Source
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Ten Myths About Dover: No. 7, “Showed ID Is ‘Religious’ and a Form of ‘Creationism’”

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Is intelligent design actually religious? Is it a form of Christianity? We can immediately see that it is not. Source
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Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?

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Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul. Source
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Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

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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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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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Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

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The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Source
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Casey Luskin: Theistic Evolution and the Limits of Neo-Darwinism

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Casey Luskin addresses the inadequacy of natural selection and random mutation to generate biological complexity. Source
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