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Denyse O'Leary
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April 18, 2021
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Robert J. Marks: How materialism proves unbounded scientific ignorance

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Mathematician Kurt Gödel showed that there is an infinite number of truths that are provably unprovable. That's bad news for scientism, though not for science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 4, 2021
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Is science drifting from simple materialism to panpsychism?

Denyse O'Leary
April 4, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
It seems to have come down to a choice between “nothing is conscious” and “everything is conscious.” But materialism becomes incoherent when it requires us to believe that we only imagine we are conscious — that's a basic error in logic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2020
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Michael Egnor: The mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor: I agree that design in nature is an effective challenge to materialism. But I also believe that the mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way—and in much the same way that evidence of intelligent design in biology refutes materialism… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 31, 2019
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics
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Astrophysicist Adam Frank: Materialism is on shaky ground

Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2019
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Physics
Frank is an expert on the final stages of evolution of stars like the sun. His computational research group has developed advanced supercomputer tools in order to study how stars form and die. So he would incline to a materialist view, surely? But no, he says, quantum physics blew all that away. And some neuroscientists just haven’t caught up. Read More ›
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September 21, 2019
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Defending our Civilization, Intelligent Design, Mind, mind and brain

Egnor on the evidence against materialism:

kairosfocus
September 21, 2019
Defending our Civilization, Intelligent Design, Mind, mind and brain

News just tagged this on to a news post but this is worth headlining: Blurb: Discovery Science In this bonus interview footage from Science Uprising, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses the evidence against materialism and explains how materialism undercuts rather than supports genuine science. Be sure to visit https://scienceuprising.com/ to find more videos and explore related articles and books. Michael Egnor, MD (from Columbia University), neurosurgeon and professor of neurological surgery at Stony Brook University. Dr. Egnor is renowned for his work in pediatric neurosurgery. See https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2516312…. Food for thought. END

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 1, 2019
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Late stage materialism?: Panpsychism (your coffee mug is conscious) sounds crazy but…

Denyse O'Leary
September 1, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
If you believe that nature is all there is and you can’t otherwise explain the mind, the mind must be part of nature and therefore electrons are conscious. Unless you want to say that the mind is an illusion. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 18, 2019
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Can a simple triangle disprove materialism?

Denyse O'Leary
August 18, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind
Edward Feser: When we grasp that formal nature of being a triangle, we are grasping something that is totally abstract. It applies to every single triangle that has existed, does exist, will exist or, for that matter, could exist, whether it is a triangle drawn in ink, whether it is a triangle drawn in sand, whether it is a triangle you construct by putting three sticks together, whether it is a triangle formed by the side of a pyramid, the idea or the concept is entirely abstract. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 12, 2019
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“Descartes’ mind-body problem” makes nonsense of materialism

Denyse O'Leary
August 12, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
The mind-body “problem” is the nonsense materialists are led into in order to make the obvious meaning of the experience of an immaterial mind disappear in a dense weed jungle of verbiage. Read More ›