Archive for March 2024
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 5): How Can Someone With Partial or No Brain Have Consciousness?
There has been a raft of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) reported in recent decades and those reports have generated a growing body of clinical analyses seeking to account for them that directly challenge the idea that consciousness is created by our brains. It’s not just from NDEs, however, from which significant evidence that consciousness does not…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 4): And Then There’s Quantum Biology
You’ve no doubt heard of Quantum Mechanics (QM), but did you know there is a growing field of scientific inquiry that applies QM to biology? Naturally, it is otherwise known as Quantum Biology (QB) and it appears to explain a lot that traditional biology can’t. Things like how birds that migrate back and forth over…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 3): Why Materialists Can’t Fully Explain Consciousness
Imagine for a moment that you have the unique ability to scan the left-hand page of an open book with your left eye and the right-hand page with your right eye. Would that be amazing? Believe it or not, Kim Peek, the man on whom the 1988 movie “Rain Man” was based, could do that.…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 2): What Consciousness and Colors Like Yellow Have in Common
If that headline makes no sense to you at first glance, that is precisely the point. If you had to describe for a blind person the color Yellow in such vivid terms that they would immediately recognize it if they regained sight, what would you say? See what I mean? You can relate your experience…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 1): How Do We Get Consciousness If We’re Just Material Objects?
Ever hear of the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” in science? If you Google that term, you will quickly see that topping the list of unanswered questions about human beings and life is this intellectual challenge: If we are made up of nothing other than physical material, how can we also have non-material minds and thus…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY: About the Historical Evidence That Jesus is Alive?
Unlike every other religion in the world, Christianity is based upon the life, death and alleged resurrection of its main character, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Salvation is the result of having a living, personal relationship with Him as your Lord and Savior, not on you performing enough good…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SYDNEY WESTWICK moves into her first full-time congressional position, signing up as a Staff Assistant on the House Budget Committee working for Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas). Sydney previously Interned on the staff of Rep. Blaine Lutketmeyer (R-Mo.). She is a 2023 graduate of Salisbury University with a BS in Public Health. Also…
Read MoreSCIENCE AND FAITH: Chameleons Are Wonders of Creation
Calling somebody a chameleon in Washington, D.C. is almost always considered an insult or criticism because it suggests that person can change “color” — his or her politics, friends, food preferences and much more — any time when doing so is convenient or thought to be advantageous for them in some way. But the actual…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: How Could Jesus So Accurately Predict the Fall of Jerusalem Four Decades Before It Happened?
When the Roman Legions poured through the massive walls around Jerusalem and proceeded to utterly destroy the great city in 70 AD, they did so just as Jesus Christ had told His disciples more than four decades before. The evidence that demonstrates how amazingly accurate was Jesus’s prediction isn’t just in the Bible. As Kyle…
Read MoreGOOD QUESTION: Why Is It So Hard To Live The Christian Life?
Please don’t think the headline on this post is intended to limit the readership only to those who are professing Christians. To the contrary, it is even more important for those who aren’t to have an accurate concept of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ as your eternal Lord and Savior.…
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