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Michael Egnor

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 18, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Michael Egnor to Jerry Coyne: Why the universe itself can’t be the most fundamental thing

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Egnor: The cause of the universe must be something other than the universe itself and must have the power to cause things independently of the laws of nature. That is what all men call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
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Michael Egnor: Here’s why an argument for God’s existence is a scientific argument

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
Egnor: [t]he logic pointing to God’s existence is overwhelmingly stronger than the evidence and logic supporting any other scientific theory in nature. Aquinas’s First Way proof of God’s existence, for example, has exactly the same structure as any other scientific theory. The empirical evidence is the presence of change in nature. Because infinite regress is logically impossible in an essentially ordered chain of changes, there must be a Prime Mover to begin the process and that is what we call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2021
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Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, theism
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At Mind Matters News: Why believe atheists about God?

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2021
Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, theism
Logic and evidence both point to the existence of God, whatever atheists may think: Michael Egnor addresses three arguments in Steve Meyer’s new book, The Return of the God Hypothesis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 19, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Education, Intelligent Design, science education
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Michael Egnor reflects on Joshua Swamidass’s proposal for effectively canceling Christian colleges

Denyse O'Leary
March 19, 2021
Academic Freedom, Education, Intelligent Design, science education
Egnor: "Notably, Swamidass completely leaves out the one criterion that is the cornerstone of accreditation of educational institutions: outcome metrics... don’t know (and Swamidass has nothing to say about it) how students from Christian colleges compare, but is it well established that homeschooled kids (who are disproportionately taught by conservative Christian families) score almost 100 points higher on the SAT and score correspondingly higher on the ACT than the national average." Okay, but no one sponsoring the war on math is concerned about outcomes because educators have the power to jimmy marks to reward whatever they want to reward and then pass the problem on to others who must then do the same. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why the multiverse is just a way of evading reality

Denyse O'Leary
March 2, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Michael Egnor: The fact that the universe is tuned — that is, the fact there is any consistency at all in the laws of physics — demonstrates God’s existence. This is Aquinas’ Fifth Way, which is the proof from design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why we don’t live in a multiverse

Denyse O'Leary
February 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Egnor: The problem is, to make their claim credible, [Novella and Goff] must show that there actually are localities in the universe in which the laws of physics differ in a way that would make fine tuning likely by chance. Read More ›