11Jun 2025 by Post

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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05Jun 2025 by Post

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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31May 2025 by Post

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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22May 2025 by Post

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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21Apr 2025 by Post

Pope Francis, Evolution, and the Curia

Associated Press, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christianity, Curia, elites, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Evangelical Catholicism, Evolution, Faith & Science, George Weigel, Intelligent Design, materialism, media, National Review, newspapers, Pontifical Council on Culture, Pope Francis, religion, Roman Catholicism, Secularism, sexual misbehavior, Templeton Foundation, Vatican City, young people
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is “just another office down the street,” as one Vatican insider told me. Source
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11Apr 2025 by Post

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Catholic Darwin”

A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design, Alasdair MacIntyre, Catholicism, Collège de France, Discovery Institute Press, England, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Raymond J. Nogar, Henri Bergson, history of science, hominization, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Jacques Maritain, Jesuits, Msgr. Bruno de Solages, neologisms, noosphere, Omega point, paleontologists, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Raïssa Maritain, Robert Shedinger, suicide, supernatural, The Phenomenon of Man, theology
No doubt, Teilhard ­ had — and has — Catholic admirers. The most positive Catholic assessment I have encountered comes from the pen of Msgr. Bruno de Solages. Source
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29Mar 2025 by Post

Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

academia, beliefs, belonging, bioethics, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, faith and science, fear, Francis Collins, free speech, Jay Bhattacharya, John Mac Ghlionn, John West, media, ministry, National Institutes of Health, Politico, Praise, promotions, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders Are Failing — and What We Can Do About It
How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Source
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25Mar 2025 by Post

West: Why We Can’t “Just Make Peace with Darwin”

bioethics, Charles Darwin, Cleveland, corrosiveness, Culture, Darwinism, Darwinists, Douglas Axe, Eric Pianka, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, humans, John West, life, mankind, misanthropy, molecular biologists, political scientists, Sean McDowell, self-hatred, The Lyceum, University of Texas
Watch this and then ask a Darwinist friend if he or she can think of one way that the evolutionary perspective has ennobled or uplifted anyone. Source
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