26Dec 2025 by Post

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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29Nov 2025 by Post

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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28Nov 2025 by Post

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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14Jun 2025 by Post

Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

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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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05Jun 2025 by Post

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

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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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14Dec 2024 by Post

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Source
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11Oct 2023 by Post

Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

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The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Source
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