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November 9, 2020

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agnosticism, Aristotle, Atheism, consciousness, emergent property, epiphenomena, Evolution, final causes, genetic mutations, God, idealism, instinct, Intelligent Design, Jerry Fodor, Materialism, meta-cognitive, Natural Selection, organizing principles, panpsychism, philosophical materialism, pre-meditation, random mutations, randomness, self-reflection, teleology, What Darwin Got Wrong}

The Evolution (or not) of Consciousness

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On this ID the Future neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? This is a guest episode borrowed with permission from Mind Matters, a podcast of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

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Paul Nelson

Date
June 26, 2020

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__edited, Adolf Grünbaum, Aristotle, DNA sequencing, empirical attitude, epistemology, Francis Bacon, genome sequencing, genomic sequencing, Intelligent Design, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Materialism, Naturalism, Nature, On Certainty, orphan genes, philosophy of science, Robert Boyle, Royal Society of London, Sean Carroll}

Paul Nelson on Listening to Nature for Her Answers

_{Paul Nelson

June 26, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, philosopher of science Paul Nelson concludes his talk with host Andrew McDiarmid on what it takes to converse effectively with scientists who are trapped in a naturalistic parabola — that is, researchers who draw their conclusions from naturalism’s authority rather than following the evidence wherever it leads. Nelson urges us to keep the third party in the conversation: Nature herself. We listen to nature through experiment, he says, and warns against the message from scientists such as CalTech’s Sean Carroll who have suggested that testing is “overrated.” If we listen and test, nature can keep revealing herself in surprising ways, says Nelson, which is what makes science so fun.

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Michael Egnor

Date
May 13, 2020

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__edited, Aristotle, chance, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darwinism, design inference, Evolution, intelligent agency, Intelligent Design, mutations, Natural Selection, P.Z. Myers, pandemic, Proteins, random mutations, randomness, RNA, specified complexity, virus}

Covid-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

_{Michael Egnor

May 13, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid speaks with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about Egnor’s recent Evolution News article, The Coronavirus Demonstrates How Evolution Presupposes Intelligent Design. Egnor notes that the coronavirus and other viruses are not, strictly speaking, considered living things, even if they depend on living hosts for their continued existence. Egnor also discusses the role of random mutations in viruses and draws upon Aristotle to argue that these and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design — in this case, the designed systems — the bodies — that viruses invade.

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Michael Aeschliman

Date
October 14, 2019

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__edited, 1984, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, classics, Darwinism, dystopia, English literature, epistemology, Ernst Haeckel, Ethics, George Orwell, German militarism, Marxism, natural law, Objectivity, Philosophy, Plato, rational life, reductionism, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Second Fall of Man, Sidney Hook, Social Darwinism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, utopia}

Aeschliman Talks C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, and That Hideous Strength

_{Michael Aeschliman

October 14, 2019

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Michael Aeschliman, author of the newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism sits down with host Andrew McDiarmid to explore Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, its defense of natural law, and its bracing takedown of scientism. Read More ›

Radio telescopes and the Milky Way at night

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Edward Feser

Date
July 17, 2019

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Aquinas’s 5 Ways, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, divine mind, essences, extrinsic teleology, Intelligent Design, intrinsic teleology, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, naturalistic evolution, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Edward Feser on the Question of Mind Behind the Universe

_{Edward Feser

July 17, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Michael Egnor continues his discussion with philosopher and professor Edward Feser about Feser’s new book Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science The question this time is whether evolution is compatible with an Aristotelian understanding of reality. Feser says it could be — but he argues against naturalistic evolution anyway. While Feser differs from intelligent design theorists on his approach to the question, he agrees with the conclusion that nature evidences the existence of a mind instilling purpose, goal-directedness, and function within nature.

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Edward Feser

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July 15, 2019

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__edited, Aquinas’s 5 Ways, Aristotle, divine mind, essences, extrinsic teleology, final causes, intrinsic teleology, Materialism, mechanical model, methodological materialism, scientific Materialism, teleology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel, William Paley}

Edward Feser on Aristotle’s Revenge: Purpose and Essence in Nature

_{Edward Feser

July 15, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Michael Egnor interviews philosopher Edward Feser about Feser’s new book Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science. Scientists can get along without Aristotle’s metaphysics, says Feser, but science can’t; in fact science presupposes Aristotle. Mechanistic views of nature have tried to make nature nothing but particles interacting, but a full understanding of nature requires that we include Aristotelian purpose, or teleology, and essences as well. Ultimately, Feser suggests, this leads us toward evidence for a divine mind behind it all.

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Michael Egnor

Date
July 1, 2019

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__edited, aboutness, Aristotelian metaphysics, Aristotle, Cody Libett, Darwinism, Dualism, form, Franz Brentano, intentionality, M.R. Bennett, Materialism, materialist bias, matter, Michael Egnor, P.M.S. Hacker, philosophical materialism, philosophy of mind, scholastic philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas, teleology}

Neurosurgeon Uprising, Pt. 2: Egnor Takes on Mind/Brain Materialism

_{Michael Egnor

July 1, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future we hear a neurosurgeon’s view on materialistic bias afflicting the entire field of neuroscience. It’s a bias, he argues, that leads some scientists to misunderstand the meaning of their experiments. Darwinists “allergic to teleology” ignore clear evidence that purpose is essential to the mind. This talk is bonus material accompanying the action-filled and thought provoking series of short videos on science and materialism at scienceuprising.com.

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Michael Newton Keas

Date
March 18, 2019

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__edited, Aristotle, astronomy, book of nature, designed for discovery, Galileo, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Kepler, mathematics, Newton, Plato, Privileged Planet, science-starter, science-stopper, scientific revolution}

Kepler, Galileo, the Book of Nature, and the First Mathematician

_{Michael Newton Keas

March 18, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid talks with science historian Michael Keas on pioneering mathematical astronomer Johannes Kepler, based on Keas’ new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Kepler studied theology before turning to math and science, and it was his belief in God that guided his extraordinary discoveries. “Without an architect who created the world,” he said, “there is no … power in mathematics to make anything material.” Scientists, in his view of God, were thinking the thoughts or ideas that God himself had thought any time they discovered some law or deep pattern in nature. Kepler is just one of a long list of great early scientists, including Galileo, who saw a “book” of God’s revelation in nature written in the language of mathematics. God designed the world for discovery, Kepler believed, and that conviction inspired his groundbreaking investigations.

Unbelievable: The Cosmic Copernican Demotion That Wasn’t

_{Michael Newton Keas

February 11, 2019

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid again hears from science historian Michael Keas about another science myth exploded in Keas’ new ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. This time it’s the belief that Copernicus’s sun-centered cosmos demoted humans from our privileged position at the center. As another pioneering early astronomer, Galileo, noted, under the old astronomy the center was no privileged place. Instead it was viewed as the bottom of the universe, the “sump where the universe’s filth and ephemera collect.” So Copernicus’s discovery, if anything, elevated Earth’s place in the cosmos.

Michael Egnor on What the Craniopagus Twins Tells Us about Mind and Brain

_{Michael Egnor

December 13, 2017

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On this episode of ID The Future, neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor explores the case of Tatiana and Krista, the “Craniopagus Twins.” Their condition, he says, provides evidence against strict materialism. Tatiana and Krista are connected at the thalamus (which controls such things as wakefulness, motor function and vision) through a structure called a thalamic bridge. This bridge enables them to see through each other’s eyes to and control each other’s limbs. Egnor explains how their separate personalities and thoughts nevertheless show that there is something about the mind not reducible to the brain. Egnor also goes through the mind-brain research of Roger Sperry, Benjamin Libet and Wilder Penfield.