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Free Will

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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mind
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Jerry Coyne fires back at Egnor and Luskin

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mind
Having stated that he wouldn’t engage in a dialogue (which he would presumably be doing if he responded), Coyne conceded shortly afterward that “I may be forced by the laws of physics in making a few remarks.” And he makes more than a few. But he presses on: “one more before I grow ill.” Physics is a harsh master. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 14, 2022
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At Mind Matters News: Mike Egnor to Jerry Coyne: If evil exists, so must good — and real choices!

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mind
Egnor to Coyne: ... when you find that your metaphysics was shared by the defense counsel at the Nazi war crime trials, you ought to reconsider your metaphysics. And I think Coyne should reconsider. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Why free will is philosophically and scientifically sound

Denyse O'Leary
July 3, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physics
Takehome: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out that, though free will may be unpopular with atheist thinkers like biologist Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, science doesn’t refute it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 16, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Physics
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At Mind Matters News: John Horgan at Scientific American: Does quantum mechanics kill free will?

Denyse O'Leary
March 16, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mind, Physics
Horgan sides, somewhat tentatively, with free will. He notes that humans are more than just heaps of particles. Higher levels of complexity enable genuinely new qualities. What humans can do is not merely a more complex version of what amoebas can do — in turn, a more complex version of what electrons can do. Greater complexity can involve genuinely new qualities. A philosopher would say that he is not a reductionist. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2022
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Michael Egnor’s challenge to two atheists who deny free will

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2022
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor is challenging evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci to a debate. He thinks there is too much of this no-free-will nonsense in the science blogosphere. Egnor: "Free will has no physical cause? At least four categories of events in nature have no physical cause. Free will denial isn’t science, just atheism in a lab coat." Read More ›
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December 28, 2021
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Ethics, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Does superdeterminism resolve dilemmas around free will?

December 28, 2021
Ethics, Intelligent Design, Mind
Michael Egnor: If we lack free will, we have no justification whatsoever to even believe that we lack free will. In a timeless block however, the future exists simultaneously with the past and present — but that does not mean that the future determines the past and present. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Leading astronomer gets it all wrong about free will and destiny

Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
In response to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb denying free will and all that, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out, “Logic and reason aren’t laws of physics and therefore they transcend physical properties.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience, Physics
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A science writer offers some interesting thoughts on free will

Denyse O'Leary
February 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience, Physics
It’s interesting that a science writer sees through the most fundamental materialist rot. Unfortunately, it sounds as though he hopes to replace it with a different one. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 16, 2020
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Is Jerry Coyne undercutting his own argument against free will?

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Michael Egnor: “Except for action of any quantum events”? I challenge Coyne: What in nature isn’t the action of quantum events? Certainly, every event in the brain is quantum in nature—every brain state, every action potential, every secretion of a neurotransmitter, every bit of protein synthesis or ion flow—is the consequence of quantum events. Read More ›