Egnor describes faith as a deep relationship that may not always yield happiness about life circumstances but fosters lasting joy, independent of circumstances.
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He makes the case—based on 40 years of practice and over 7,000 brain surgeries—that science has gotten it all wrong about the soul.
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Limiting debate and censoring minority scientific viewpoints can keep “settled science” spinning wheels, stuck in the mud, on the open road to science progress.
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It may not just be bad philosophy. It may also be a determination to believe in a universe that the evidence does not support.
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Perhaps more of us should start calling out these assumptions that arise not from observing nature but from the intellectual commitments of those who make them.
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The biologists who would pride themselves on enthroning Darwinism as a public truth a century ago find that what is publicly true no long even matters the way it used to.
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Idealism’s challenging alternative to physicalism and dualism proposes a resolution to metaphysical issues that aligns with quantum mechanics’ peculiarities.
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A revolution in biology? Too soon to tell but the fact that they are permitted to make their case signals greater openness to considering the evidence.
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Walter Myers, an engineer and philosopher, sees the human soul as soul is what ultimately grounds human identity in something more than matter.
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Scientists form hypotheses, interpret data, and act with purpose. These activities cannot be reduced to neurons firing without undermining science itself.
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He notes, if our brains evolved merely to help us stay alive, then it’s strange that those same mental states could invent the telescope to explore the cosmos.
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Mark Twain and Michael Shermer each had an anomalous experience that he could not explain but would not deny.
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Efforts to jam both feet into time have gone nowhere and are likely to continue to do so.
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Maybe we need to believe that there is a Mind behind the universe in order to provide guardrails against deeply crazy stuff claiming to be science.
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He told colleagues he is planning a new book, tentatively titled “Why Liberals Should Ditch Darwin and Consider Intelligent Design.”
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It is not more “metaphysical” to say that the universe shows apparent evidence of design than to say it does not. The bias in insisting otherwise is evident.
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An absolute monopoly for science on truth conceals a fatal flaw. If scientific inquiry becomes corrupt or useless, we can find help from no other quarter.
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The doctrine of most religious traditions that the soul is not destroyed with the body is not presented as a comfort so much as a plain fact, with consequences.
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Being thankful always points our eyes outward towards others and the world around us.
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Musk’s philosophy of the future: I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe – expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species.
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