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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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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New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

anatomy, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs
Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Source
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How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

anaphase, aneuploidy, biology, biologyu, cancer, cancer cells, cell fusion, cell proliferation, cell's, chromatids, chromosomal instability, chromosome, chromosome missegregation, cohesin ring, cytokinesis failure, DNA, E-Cadherin, endoreduplication, eukaryotic cell cycle, Evolution, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, Medicine, micronuclei, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, proteasome, securin, separase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tetraploidization, tetraploidy, tumorigenesis, tumors
This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Source
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31 Nobel Prize Quotes That Challenge the ‘Faith vs. Science’ Myth – Smart Faith

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, Evidence for God, Faith vs. Reason, Gospel, Medicine, Miguel Rodriguez, science, Science vs. Religion, scientism, SmartFaith.me, theology
You have seen it on social media or even books. Someone gambling his head that faith impedes the progression of science. Faith, they say, is believing something without evidence or in spite of, and science relies on evidence to reach at truth. This gives the false impression that the majority of scientist are atheist, or at least non theist. It’s even considered conventional wisdom for many (maybe you thought it too). But in reality… this is just plain doodoo. Faith vs. Science? First, because it starts with a false definition of faith like the one mentioned above. Pistis, the Greek word for faith, means trust and is the word used in the Bible. Trust cannot be conceived without reasonable justification. The biblical faith doesn’t shy away from doubt. Doubt and faith…
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Doctor’s Diary: I Couldn’t Put Plato’s Revenge Down

biology, brain, Brian Miller, chemicals, chess pieces, Complexity, concertos, David Klinghoffer, Doctor's Diary, double helix, egg, electric cords, embryo, Evolution, eyes, gene pool, genes, humor, information, Intelligent Design, Leonardo da Vinci, Medicine, piano, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, skyscraper, sperm, Stephen Iacoboni, What Darwin Didn’t Know
I rarely read a book as quickly as I read this text, and I virtually never read a book twice. Source
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Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

Angus Menuge, animals, Artificial Intelligence, bacon, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, free won't, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neural mechanisms, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, Podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Source
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Depraved: New York Times Pushes Assisted Suicide for the Elderly

bioethics, Culture, Daniel Kahneman, disabilities, elderly, Ezekiel Emanuel, family, friendship, geriatric suicide, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Medicine, mentally ill, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Peter Singer, philosophers, philosophy, Princeton University, suicide, Switzerland, The Atlantic
The victims of such a nihilistic mindset will be the elderly, people with disabilities, the mentally ill, and the seriously sick in an ever-widening swath. Source
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