Tag: life

Family, Support, Elderly Care, Assistance, Seniors Concept. Grandmother In Bed.

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Michael Egnor

Date
February 4, 2026

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, Alexander Batthyany, boundary conditions, Brain, brain function, death, human soul, life, Materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, mind-body dualism, natural philosophy, near-death experience, neuroscience, Neurosurgeon, physicalism, Science, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold}

Mind and Soul at the Threshold of Death

_{Michael Egnor
February 4, 2026

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Does the brain explain the mind completely? And what can phenomena like terminal lucidity and near-death experiences reveal about the relationship between mind and brain? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid concludes his two-part conversation exploring those questions with neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor, co-author with Denyse O’Leary of the recent book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, and Alexander Batthyany, a leading researcher on terminal lucidity and author of Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border Between Life and Death. In the first half of the conversation, we defined terminal lucidity and explored why it’s so puzzling. Today, we look at how it relates to near-death experiences, and we ask a deeper question: what does this phenomenon suggest about the nature of the human mind? This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Read More ›

Grandfather spending time with his granddaughter on bench in park on autumn day

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 20, 2025

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, biochemistry, communication, Darwinism, Eric Hedin, Evolution, fungal network, hearing, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, life, Materialism, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, non-life, non-living matter, origin of life, speech, trees}

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

_{Eric Hedin
August 20, 2025

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Meaningful communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. It's one feature that makes life uniquely different from a vast universe of non-living matter. But where does our ability to communicate come from? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with physicist and author Dr. Eric Hedin about the remarkable features that separate living systems from non-life. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 1 in a separate episode. Read More ›

Young ballerina in a beautiful dress is dancing in a dark photostudio

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 26, 2025

Tagged
, ballerina, Canceled Science, Darwinism, disorder, energy, energy production, energy state, equilibrium, Eric Hedin, Evolution, Intelligent Design, laws of physics, life, life after death, Materialism, natural energy state, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, physics, specified complexity, The Immortal Mind}

Why Life Is the Most Unnatural Thing in the Universe

_{Eric Hedin
May 26, 2025

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We usually think of life as the most natural thing there is – blooming plants, flowing water, the cycles of nature. But what if that perspective is fundamentally challenged by the very laws of physics that govern our universe? On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes physicist Dr. Eric Hedin to the podcast to discuss the compelling idea that life is the most "unnatural" thing in the universe. Dr. Hedin contends that the complex, organized nature of life defies the natural tendency of matter and energy towards disorder and equilibrium, suggesting that life requires something only an intelligent designer could provide. Read More ›

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Author
James Tour

Date
February 1, 2023

Tagged
, Academic Freedom, amino acids, carbohydrates, cell, cellular complexity, chemical evolution, DNA, Eric Metaxas, Harold Urey, homochirality, James Tour, life, lipids, membrane, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, origin-of-life mystery, philosophical materialism, prebiotic chemistry, protocells, protoplasm, research funding, RNA, self-reproduction, Stanley Miller, vesicles}

James Tour: The Goalposts are Racing Away from the Origin-of-Life Community

_{James Tour
February 1, 2023

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On today’s ID the Future distinguished nanoscientist James Tour explains to host Eric Metaxas why the origin-of-life community is further than ever from solving the mystery of life’s origin, and how the public has gotten the false impression that scientists can synthesize life in the lab. Tour explains that origin-of-life scientists aren’t even close to intelligently synthesizing life from non-life in the lab. The problem, Tour says, is that some leading origin-of-life researchers give the impression they are right on the cusp of solving the problem. Not so, Tour says. He offers the analogy of someone claiming, in the year 1500, that he has the know-how to build a ship to travel to the moon, when no one yet knows Read More ›