Tag: Religion

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 17, 2022

Categorized
Neuroscience and Mind

Tagged
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
John G. West

Date
May 4, 2020

Categorized
Culture

Tagged
__edited, afterlife, Alfred Kinsey, Atheism, Christopher Ryan, Cornell University, cultural decay, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, divine omnipotence, divine omniscience, Ethics, Evolution, faith, Finding Darwin’s God, fine-tuning, George Coyne, God, human exceptionalism, human zoos, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Miller, marriage, Materialism, moral relativism, National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Philip Skell, Privileged Species, purpose, Religion, scientific Materialism, Sex at Dawn, sexual ethics, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, soul, theistic evolutionist, Thomas Nagel}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea, Pt. 2

_{John G. West

May 4, 2020

Culture}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear the second half of Discovery Institute’s John West’s talk given at the 2020 Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, on how Darwinism has corroded Western culture. In this portion he examines the morally poisoning effects of Darwinism on marriage, sexual ethics, and religion, such that virtually anything can be defended as OK, and no particular culture’s ethic is to be preferred over another. Humankind’s spiritual purpose has likewise been eroded. Yet West closes with hope: science in our generation is discovering more and more signs of intelligent design and purpose in nature, and young researchers are learning that materialism shouldn’t be the foregone conclusion of contemporary science.

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 11, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Christian humanism, Darwin, epistemology, ethical reason, Ethics, G.K. Chesterton, instrumental rationality, instrumental technique, moral philosophy, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, positivism, progress, rationalism, reason, Religion, Science, scientific reductionism, sophism, The Abolition of Man, utilitarianism, Western Civilization}

Michael Aeschliman on C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man

_{Andrew McDiarmid

October 11, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads the afterword to Michael Aeschliman’s newly revised and expanded The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism. As Aeschliman explains, Lewis neither deified nor defied science, but he did insist that science idolatry was the grave and present danger of our age. In this excerpt, Aeschliman, professor of Anglophone Culture at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano), focuses on Lewis’s brilliant critique of scientism in The Abolition of Man and elsewhere in his work, and on some key thinkers, past and present, who joined Lewis in the fight. It’s a battle, Aeschliman explains, against “the vanity of reason unhinged from ethics,” amidst “a culture that Read More ›

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Author
Michael Newton Keas

Date
February 18, 2019

Tagged
__edited, alien abductions, Clarke’s three laws, ET, extraterrestrial life, future myths, gods, Materialism, occult, Religion, Richard Dawkins, the singularity, transhumanism, UFOlogy, UFOs, Unbelievable}

Unbelievable: ET and the Futuristic Myth of a Material God

_{Michael Newton Keas

February 18, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid continues his conversation with science historian Michael Keas on myths of science and religion, based on Keas’ new work from ISI Books, Unbelievable: 7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. This time the myth comes not from the past but the future. That is, it’s the supposedly scientific belief that ET is coming, and when it comes, it will look just like a god to us. It will replace earthly religion with an advanced, more ethical alternative, and we’ll finally achieve enlightenment. It’s just as much a myth as any other, yet it’s shaping people’s worldviews anyway. Please consider donating to support the IDTF Podcast.

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Author
Robert Crowther

Date
December 23, 2013

Tagged
__edited, Evolution, Religion, Scientism}

Beyond the Evidence: Scientism as Religion

_{Robert Crowther

December 23, 2013}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear about a few cases of scientism acting as a quasi-religion. For many people, science — and evolution in particular — gives their lives a sense of meaning, providing an overarching vision of something larger than themselves. These recent pieces of science news illustrate exactly how evolutionary thinking can serve in the role of religious faith as scientific claims are made that go far beyond the evidence. For more on C.S. Lewis’ warnings against scientism, watch the short documentary The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 18, 2012

Tagged
__edited, Religion, Thinking Evolutionarily}

The Implications of Thinking Evolutionarily

_{Casey Luskin

June 18, 2012}

On this episode of ID the Future Casey Luskin takes a critical look at Thinking Evolutionarily, a new book by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences that is geared towards helping teachers teach evolution. This book contains typical exaggerations of the importance of Darwinian evolution for an understanding of science, and at the same time maintains that accepting evolutionary theory means recognizing a “fundamental randomness and unpredictability, a lack of grand design.” Such a statement is revealing of a fundamental conflict between Darwinian evolution and religion.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 26, 2012

Tagged
__edited, Religion, Senate Bill, Tennessee}

Get Informed About Tennessee’s Senate Bill 893

_{Casey Luskin

March 26, 2012}

On this episode of ID the Future, host David Boze interviews Casey Luskin about the controversy surrounding the passage of Tennessee’s Senate Bill 893. This bill supports academic freedom in the classroom by protecting the rights of teachers to discuss scientific controversies, including the controversies over Darwinian evolutionary theory. However, there are those that denounce the bill as merely a medium for putting religion in the classroom. Is this a legitimate accusation? Listen in as Casey explains the true content and purpose of TN Senate Bill 893.

The Hypocritcal Bias Against Faith in Science Rhetoric

_{John G. West

January 25, 2012}

On this episode of ID The Future, Dr. John West, Associate Director for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, discusses the attempts by many Darwinists to relegate intelligent design to the humanities, equating it with creationism so as to avoid discussion of its scientific merits. West also talks about the mistaken notion that science and faith are incompatible: “Regardless of whether someone happens to be religious or not, they have the right to participate in the public life, and that includes in science and the arts.”

eyeglass on holy Bible with window light in morning.

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Author
Jay Richards

Date
June 23, 2010

Tagged
__edited, creationists, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science, Theology}

Is Intelligent Design Bad Theology?

_{Jay Richards

June 23, 2010}

On this episode of ID the Future, Anika Smith interviews Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards about the bizarre claim made by certain atheists that intelligent design is bad theology. Read Dr. Richards’ “Is Intelligent Design Bad Theology?” here.