The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Is your mind more than just your brain? Does the soul actually exist? These questions have been pondered for millennia. What does the latest scientific research suggest? On this ID The Future, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor begins a conversation with host Andrew McDiarmid about his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul. Egnor makes a powerful case that our capacity for thought, reason, and free will points to something beyond mere brain function. After defining important terms, Egnor begins exploring the compelling evidence he has gathered across four decades of practice in neurosurgery. Along the way, Dr. Egnor also boldly challenges the Darwinian view of the mind's evolution, arguing that abstract thought and free will are immaterial and could not have arisen through natural selection. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Source

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1:06.9	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
1:14.6	Welcome to ID the Future, everyone. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott. Well, today, my guest is
1:20.2	renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor, to begin talking with me about his new book, The Immortal
1:26.4	Mind, a neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul.
1:31.0	Dr. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook.
1:37.3	Named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine in 2005, Egnor is an award-winning brain surgeon who has performed over 7,000 brain
1:46.3	operations. Dr. Egnor, thank you for taking the time with us today. Thank you, Andrew. It's a pleasure
1:52.1	to be here. Well, you've written a book, an extraordinary book, an intriguing book, making a case
1:58.0	that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. And over a couple of
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