From Materialist Biologists, a Profound Capitulation

"survival of the fittest", biology, cell's, Chance & Necessity, CRISPRs, Daniel Witt, Evolution “On Purpose”, Faith & Science, final causality, foxes, hares, integrons, Intelligent Design, internal regulatory control networks, James Shapiro, Jaques Monod, life, materialism, materialist paradigm, miracles, Modern Synthesis, molecules, mutations, neo-Darwinian evolution, organisms, organs, Peter Corning, Philosophy of Science, purpose, retroposons, science of purpose, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, transposons
I have warned that one of the few remaining avenues that naturalism can take to rescue its paradigm is to appropriate “purpose” within a materialist framework. Source
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Reading Behe in Prison

accountability, Center for Science and Culture, coder, communication, cosmic force, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, designer, Discovery Institute Press, dishwashers, DNA, donation, drugs, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, faith and science, grandfather, humanity, ID Education Day, Intelligent Design, media, Michael Behe, monthly donation, mutation, naturalism, nature, prison, professors, sex, Summer Seminar, theistic evolution
With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all. Source
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

animal, annihilationists, behavior, Boston College, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, Faith & Science, flame, Good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, Justice, Medicine, mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, number 7, Peter Kreeft, philosophy, physical world, plant, rational soul, terminal lucidity
The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Source
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Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

Atheism, brain, brain damage, brain operations, chapel, Faith & Science, family crisis, human beings, human soul, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Medicine, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, patients, Podcast, soul, The Immortal Mind, Worthy Books
His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Source
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Sternberg and Egnor Reveal the Immaterial Realm

Andrew McDiarmid, biologists, Brian Miller, Carl Jung, coincidence, Denyse O'Leary, development, Faith & Science, Greek philosophy, ID The Future, immaterial genome, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, Michael Levin, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, publishers, Raphael, scientific reasoning, synchronicity, Synchronicity (book), Thomas Aquinas, Timaeus
This kind of thinking is also on the horizon coming from biologists like Michael Levin unconnected to the ID community. Source
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Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Faith & Science, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, Podcast, Skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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Teleology: Anticipation and Necessity

anticipation, August Weismann, Bible, building blocks, Chance and Necessity, chipmunks, cognition, Design Inference, DNA, electromagnetism, Evolution, Faith & Science, Ferrari, final causality, flowering plants, Ford Mustang, Francis Crick, grizzly bear, immanent power, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, James Hutchison Stirling, Jaques Monod, natural selection, natural theology, necessity, nectar, perch, pollinators, representational directedness, rodent, Technology, telos, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, tuna, Wiliam Dembski, wolf
Imagine a primordial grizzly bear on the northern edge of the forest adjacent to the Arctic. His soma senses the differences of the new environment. Source
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Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch

brain surgeries, Bruce Greyson, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, David Klinghoffer, death, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, Faith & Science, Gary Habermas, mathematics, matter, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, Sean McDowell, soul, spirit, The Immortal Mind
"You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday." Source
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