Tag: Michael Egnor

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 17, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

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Alzheimer’s disease, Andrew Newberg, Atheism, atheists, Brain, brain activity, brain imaging, brain scanning, Brain Weaver, Christian meditation, depression, emptying the mind, faith crisis, faith in God, God, Materialism, meditating on God, meditation, Michael Egnor, mind, mind-brain dualism, mind-brain problem, mystical experience, near-death experiences, Neurology, neuroscience, neurotheology, occipital lobes, Parkinson’s disease, psychedelic drugs, psychotherapy, Religion, religious faith, schizophrenia, soul, speaking in tongues, spiritual experiences, Theism, theists, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism}

Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian

_{Michael Egnor

August 17, 2022

Neuroscience and Mind}

Today’s ID the Future continues the conversation between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and neurotheologian Andrew Newberg. In this second and concluding part of their discussion, they further explore what experiments using brain scans reveal about how the brain is affected by meditation and mystical experiences, including near-death experiences. Also, what parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues,” and how does someone who has this experience describe it, and does that description mesh with or clash with what turns up on the brain scans? Tune in to hear Newberg’s answer to this and other issues related to the mind-brain problem and the mystical. This interview is posted here by permission of Mind Read More ›

The Servant of God Mother Clara Zizic, Monastery of the Community of Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Sibenik, Croatia

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 15, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
Andrew Newberg, Atheism, Brain, brain scanning, centering prayer, Christian mystics, contemplation, FMRI, Franciscan Nuns, frontal lobe, functional magnetic resonance imaging, God, Materialism, meditation, Michael Egnor, mind, mind-body dualism, mind-brain problem, mystical experiences, neuroscience, neurotheology, parietal lobe, prayer, Religion, Roger Scruton, soul, Theism, transcendence}

The Mind/Brain Problem and the Power of Meditative Prayer

_{Michael Egnor

August 15, 2022

Neuroscience and Mind}

It’s hard to know where the brain ends and the mind begins. How can studying our brains give us insight into our minds? On this ID the Future, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor sit down for a chat about all things brain related including neurotheology, methods of studying the brain, and research on how various forms of religious and non-religious meditation actually change the wiring of the brain, including in particular a study Newberg did on Franciscan nuns and what they refer to as “centering prayer.” This interview is borrowed, with permission, from Mind Matters, a podcast of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Alas for Darwin, altruism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, compassion, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Daniel Dennett, David Stove, Denyse O’Leary, Eugenics, evolutionary psychology, force sterilization, Hank Campbell, heroism, Jerry Fodor, Michael Egnor, Natural Selection, Nazism, Neanderthal, origin of altruism, origin of the mind, panpsychism, racism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, selfish genes, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Denyse O'Leary

December 1, 2021

Evolution}

On this ID the Future host Casey Luskin interviews science journalist Denyse O’Leary about her recent essay, “Is Evolutionary Psychology a Legitimate Way to Understand Our Humanity,” which appears in the new Harvest House anthology co-edited by Luskin, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. O’Leary, a science journalist and co-author of The Spiritual Brain, offers a withering critique of evolutionary psychology and traces its roots, beginning with The Descent of Man (1871), where Charles Darwin attributed various human behaviors to natural and sexual selection. That fed into what became known as social Darwinism, which fell out of favor after World War II thanks to Hitler and the Nazis’ application of social Darwinist ideas to defend Nordic superiority and genocide. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 1, 2019

Tagged
__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}

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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 13, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Aristotle, Benjamin Libet, Brain, Craniopagus Twins, Dualism, Epilepsy, Evolution, Materialism, Michael Egnor, mind/body, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Seizures, Split Brain, Split Brain Surgery, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

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

_{Michael Egnor

December 13, 2017}

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.

Michael Egnor: Experiments Show that Mind is More Than Brain

_{Michael Egnor

December 11, 2017}

On this episode of ID The Future, host Ray Bohlin talks with Michael Egnor, a pediatric neurosurgeon and professor of neurosurgery at State University of New York Stony Brook about ways modern science validates the idea that the mind is not reducible to the brain. They delve into oddities of neuroscience that indicate that there is more going on in the brain than mere chemistry, and, in particular, walk through the seminal work of Adrian Owen on MRIs and what it reveals.

Euthanasia, Physician Assisted Suicide and the Corruption of Medicine

_{Michael Egnor

August 21, 2017}

On this episode of ID: The Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor talks about how enlisting doctors to perform assisted suicide is a betrayal of longstanding medical ethics. He describes it as an attempt to hijack the respectability of doctors to make the practice seem acceptable.

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Author
Raymond Bohlin

Date
August 9, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Academic Freedom, biology, Coyne, Darwin, Darwinism, Egnor, Ethics, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolution, Free Speech, Infanticide, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, Neurosurgeon}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne: Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, or ID

_{Raymond Bohlin

August 9, 2017}

On this episode of ID: The Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor discusses Jerry Coyne’s free speech double standard. Peter Singer has advocated killing some handicapped newborns in the crib, and after some handicapped people protested and disrupted his lectures, Coyne objected to their infringing on Singer’s free speech rights. But then Coyne supported efforts to intimidate and possibly fire professor Eric Hedin for noting evidence of fine-tuning in an an elective seminar on “The Boundaries of Science.”* *Updated August 14, 2017

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 10, 2014

Tagged
__edited, Ball State University, Evolution, Jerry Coyne, LA County Museum of Natural History, Michael Egnor}

Dr. Michael Egnor: How Science is Censored

_{Michael Egnor

February 10, 2014}

On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Michael Egnor is on the show again to talk more about his recent debates with atheist evolutionary biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne. Listen in as Egnor and Research Coordinator Casey Luskin discuss recent efforts that Jerry Coyne has made against open discourse on intelligent design and evolution, looking at two recent incidents of censorship at Ball State University and the LA County Museum of Natural History.