Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

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Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Source
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The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

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A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Source
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Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

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If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Source
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Source
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Mimesis and Identifying the Intelligent Designer

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We are social creatures, meant to be together. That means social pressure is real and can be intense. Source
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The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

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Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Source
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

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When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Source
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 “What Is a Man?” — New Book Out Today from Nancy Pearcey

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Set aside one question of the moment — “What is a woman?” — and turn to another no less important problem that troubles our culture. Source
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All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Source
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Should We Give Nature “Rights”? A Premier Science Journal Says Yes

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The text is too long to present here, so I will give one example: the “right to evolve.” The authors note that “evolution” has many meanings. Source
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