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Michael Egnor

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A Universal Mind is a reasonable idea, says Bernardo Kastrup

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
One reason that science media are respectful of cosmopsychism may be growing awareness of the problems with strict materialism, naturalism, or physicalism: As Michael Egnor has noted, “How can you have a proposition that the mind doesn’t exist? That means propositions don’t exist and that means that you don’t have a proposition.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Michael Egnor and Bernardo Kastrup: Why consciousness couldn’t just evolve from the mud

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
Kastrup, a philosopher and computer scientist, does not accept a Darwinian account of the evolution of consciousness and is is also sympathetic to the basic intuitions behind the idea that there is design in nature (intelligent design theory). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 28, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Psychology
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Michael Egnor skewers claim that there is no continuity of the human self

Denyse O'Leary
July 28, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Psychology
Egnor: if Blackmore is not the same person now that she was a moment ago, then it makes no sense to call the YouTube video above an interview with Susan Blackmore. Perhaps it should be called interviews with Susan Blackmores or interviews with countless women, one of whom was Susan Blackmore. Or interviews with women formerly known as Susan Blackmore... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 21, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Michael Egnor on the relationship between Darwinism and totalitarianism

Denyse O'Leary
July 21, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Egnor: Philosopher Hannah Arendt is, in my view, the most perceptive analyst of totalitarianism. In her magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism, she points out that Darwinism played an essential role in the rise of totalitarian governments in the 20th century. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 16, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism
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Michael Egnor counsels: Live not by lies

Denyse O'Leary
July 16, 2020
Culture, Darwinism
He explains how he got involved with ID. Sure, he tells us, people tried to get him fired and he received death threats. He offers various strategies to fight Cancel Culture, ending with “Censors of all sorts depend on the cooperation of their victims. Don’t cooperate. Don’t participate. Serve only the truth. Live not by lies. ” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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ID folk know a fair bit about how Cancel Culture works

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
As more and more normal people are Canceled for doing normal things, it will become progressively clearer that the nasties of Cancel Culture are at direct odds with the welfare of any normal enterprise they attach themselves to, whether it is a newspaper or a science. Finally, one must choose between catering to them and tending to the welfare of the enterprise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 19, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Do universities still need intellectual freedom? Why?

Denyse O'Leary
June 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
At one time, a university education was a prized opportunity to be part of an intellectual elite. Academic freedom was a club rule because it served well in the days when Einstein and Bohr, to name just two, provided us with a much better understanding of physics by overturning all that we thought we knew in certain areas. But maybe things have changed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 28, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Michael Egnor asks re COVID-19: How much of the science knowledge is fake?

Denyse O'Leary
May 28, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Um, yes. A lot of people who want, for whatever reason, to survive and thrive, are going to have a lot of questions hereafter about the thousand shrieking heads of "consensus science."Before, it wasn't about anything that mattered so much to us. But, surveying the ruins now... Read More ›