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Michael Egnor

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 24, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Michael Egnor: The mind’s reality is consistent with neuroscience

Denyse O'Leary
February 24, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor: I think the best explanation of the relationship of the mind to the brain is Aristotelian hylomorphism which is the viewpoint that the soul is the form of the body and that certain powers of the soul, particularly the intellect and will, are not generated by matter but are immaterial things. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 23, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Spoof alert!: Jerry Coyne is interviewed at Dissociated News

Denyse O'Leary
February 23, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Coyne has been a frequent topic on our page in recent months and a reader dug this out from 2013 and sent it in. Michael Egnor imagines an interview with Jerry Coyne on deplatforming opponents: They're still talking about it. After I told them not to. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 20, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Mike Egnor offers to help Darwinist PZ Myers tell boys from girls

Denyse O'Leary
February 20, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
For a person who believes so strongly in the power of natural selection, yes, how the genes get together would be a good thing to know. Myers recently asserted that when he meets people, he infers nothing about their sexual identity. Egnor responds to the general question and the particular one in two parts. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 11, 2020
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Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Mike Egnor vs. Jerry Coyne on how consciousness evolved

Denyse O'Leary
February 11, 2020
Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Egnor: The assertion that consciousness “evolved” is either empty (it doesn’t explain the arrival of consciousness, only its survival) or it presupposes panpsychism—the presence of consciousness in inanimate matter. Panpsychism is anathema to materialists like Coyne, who desperately try to eliminate Mind from nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 17, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Yes, Jerry. Split brains are weird, but not the way you think

Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, who knows some details about the brain, responds: What is most remarkable about these patients is that after the surgery they are unaffected in everyday life, except for the diminished seizures. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 30, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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Michael Egnor sympathizes with people who think the universe is conscious

Denyse O'Leary
December 30, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
Michaael Egnor: There is no doubt that consciousness is a fundamental property of animal and human existence. As philosopher Philip Goff notes, a philosophy that cannot plausibly account for it cannot be correct. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 11, 2019
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Darwinism, Design inference, Information, Intelligent Design
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Do Jeffrey Shallit’s writings offer more information than a blank page?

Denyse O'Leary
October 11, 2019
Darwinism, Design inference, Information, Intelligent Design
Michael Egnor wonders whether that’s true. But he faces the difficulty of convincing anti-ID mathematician Jeffrey Shallit, that HE, at least, ought to think they do. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 6, 2019
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
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In debating Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor tries philosophy…

Denyse O'Leary
October 6, 2019
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, theism
Egnor: The Prime Mover argument is the most popular formal argument for the existence of God, and it is often misunderstood and, when understood, often misrepresented. Atheists, in my experience, never get it right. If they did, they wouldn’t be atheists. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 29, 2019
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Michael Egnor: Did consciousness evolve to help us “find love”?

Denyse O'Leary
September 29, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
Egnor: How tight a link might we expect between reproductive success and the contemplation of truth? Not a lot, it would seem, if the experience of philosophy majors on the dating scene is any measure. Read More ›