Chemist Marcos Eberlin on a Crisis for Chemical Evolution

_{Marcos Eberlin

August 12, 2019}

On this episode of ID the Future, distinguished Brazilian organic chemist Marcos Eberlin talks about chemical evolution and the origin of life, pivoting off of comments by Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour in Science Uprising Episode 5, and off of Eberlin’s own Nobel laureate-endorsed book Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose. The idea of an unguided origin of the first life has been “sold to us,” he says, but its assumptions are “insane … many, many times impossible.”

Jonathan Witt Talks Science Uprising and More with Jerry Newcombe

_{July 31, 2019

Science}

Today’s episode of ID the Future brings you a conversation between Discovery Institute senior fellow Jonathan Witt and radio host Jerry Newcombe, originally presented on Newcombe’s nationally syndicated radio show. The two begin by discussing the Discovery Institute’s Science Uprising video series, which Jonathan helped create. From there they go on to talk about philosophical materialism, free will, morality, and what it means to be human. They touch on the Darwinian opposition, and on the rising threat of censorship.

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post

Author
Jeffrey Schwartz

Date
June 24, 2019

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Neuroscience and Mind

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__edited, Determinism, Dualism, Materialism, mind/body, mindfulness, neuroscience, Science Uprising, Scientism}

A Neuroscientist Takes on Scientism and the Science Worshippers

_{Jeffrey Schwartz

June 24, 2019

Neuroscience and Mind}

On this episode of ID the Future we hear bonus material on the mind from the Discovery Institute’s new Science Uprising video series. Materialist philosophy says we’re no more than our brains; that we’re wet robots, in essence. Also, scientism, rooted in materialism, holds that science is the only path to knowledge. Here, a distinguished research neuroscientist take on those dogmatic claims and discusses some clinical evidence that mind is not reducible to the brain.