Book with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, THE IMMORTAL MIND: A neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul (2025) now published. At work on a book on NDEs.
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The human brain: My, what a well-organized “kludge”!
Looking back at a neuroscience book that was popular two decades ago is quite revealing in the light of new findings
mindmatters.ai/2026/10/the-h…
Why is a concept like the kludge brain, out of date and at odds with the facts, somehow more representative of science than an inference to design would be?
Well, someone had to tell him:
A college student who calls himself a “future scientist” tells Joshua Haymes a baby in the womb is “not a human being yet.”
So Haymes asks him to Google one question: “When does life begin?”
He reads the answer out loud, and the debate is over.
JOSHUA HAYMES: “My proposition is very simple. It is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being.”
STUDENT: “It’s not a human being yet.”
JOSHUA HAYMES: “When does human life begin?”
STUDENT: “I think that’s more of a philosophical question… As a future scientist, even.”
JOSHUA HAYMES: “You would say trust the science. You would agree with trust the science?”
STUDENT: “Yeah, I would.”
JOSHUA HAYMES: “Would you agree that it is always evil to intentionally kill an innocent human being?”
STUDENT: “Innocent, yes.”
JOSHUA HAYMES: “Now, you said you trust the science. Will you do me a favor and just look up on your phone right now: according to all of the available scientific data, when does life begin?”
STUDENT: “It says at fertilization or conception.”
That’s the moment his whole argument collapsed.
JOSHUA HAYMES: “This is the consensus of all of the scientific community that life begins at conception. It’s not a future life. It’s a current life… If you trust the science, you have to say we must abolish abortion.”
STUDENT: [laughing] “Aww man…”
He laughs because he knows he just lost. Credit to him for admitting it.
CONTEXT: The science the student looked up is not just a pro-life talking point.
In 2018, a University of Chicago researcher asked 5,577 biologists from 1,058 institutions when a human life begins. 96% said fertilization. Most of them identified as pro-choice.
In 1952, Planned Parenthood’s own pamphlet told women abortion “kills the life of a baby after it has begun.” The biology hasn’t changed since then. The marketing has.
Denyse O'Leary retweeted
We suppose it is the ones with dementia who cannot remember things, when it is actually we who are forgetting them.
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The Canadian government introduces Bill C-41 to expand euthanasia law.
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(Are such laws ever contracted?)
At Rebel News: From London to Wexford, the free speech fight spreads across the Anglosphere
In five days, Kirk Loco was tried in Bray, Tommy Robinson in London and Hugh Fagan in Wexford, the last for sitting in a town square with cardboard signs.
rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_sh…?
Advice for pols and crats to live by: "if you don’t want people sharing a picture of you as a bunny rabbit, you probably shouldn’t call attention to it."
nypost.com/2026/10/27/opinio…
Constitituional Centre for Justice and Liberty asks BC's new gov to:
"Protect children by removing SOGI from the public school curriculum, and respect the rights and responsibilities of parents on matters of gender and sexuality."
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Let's see is anything happens.
Power, Politics, and Seattle’s Homelessness Machine
Jonathan Choe investigates the crime, chaos, and disorder surrounding DESC’s facilities in Seattle, exposing the organization’s powerful political connections and the protection those ties appear to afford it.
fixhomelessness.org/2026/pow…
HUD’s Homelessness Reforms Put Human Lives Ahead of Housing Bureaucracy
Senior Fellow Michele Steeb explains how HUD’s homelessness reforms are redefining success, prioritizing recovery and self-sufficiency over housing placements.
fixhomelessness.org/2026/hud…
(Let's hope so.)
Evolution, the new NOVA series on PBS, claims that “tiny little mistakes” add up to “all the things that used to live, and that live among us today.” But evolutionary biologist Richard Buggs points out myriad problems with that argument.
scienceandculture.com/2026/1…
(Tiny mistakes do NOT add up to big achievements, jsut bigger mistakes.)
Denyse O'Leary retweeted
My latest: These awful moral dilemmas should not exist. And they would not but for the euthanasia movement’s activism, the spreading legalization of facilitated death, and the consequential normalization of having family and friends attend these death. nationalreview.com/corner/wo…
Mark Steyn on the new post-normal: "Several people were injured after a car drove into a group of people in a northern German town close to Hanover shortly before midnight on Monday, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday."
It used to be rather unusual for cars to drive into groups of people. Yet, from that characteristically passive formulation, one might easily get the impression that the media and the authorities are trying to anaesthetise us to such events, to pass them off as a normal feature of life.
steynonline.com/16475/the-ne…
(Nice neighbours vote for this.)
AI Empowers Creativity and Creates Work – Nathan Jacobson
I’d like to make a case, from the perspective of a creator and graphic designer, that the anxiety about generative AI is largely unwarranted
mindmatters.ai/2026/10/ai-em…
Those who worry about AI eliminating jobs have failed to learn the lesson of history, which has seen countless jobs eliminated time and again, and each time more jobs created.
God, The Beatles, and AI – Kenneth Francis
Three Main Things That Shaped Western Civilization
mindmatters.ai/2026/10/god-t…
Aside from the Crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection spearheading Western Civilization, which is a given, most people are unaware of the profound overturning of culture The Beatles had on society.
Euthanasia without informing the patient is bound to happen in a system where almost all health care is a government monopoly. When the ship is sinking, as it was bound to do, the load is lightened.
Blocking the internet for everyone makes more sense to the French government than enforcing the law?:
France’s Prime Minister sent a letter to Orange, SFR, Free and Bouygues telling them to prepare to block TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and X for up to 12 hours if protests flared again. He asked them to keep it confidential.
The government wanted the order delivered privately to each company, with nothing in the official journal. The public would get a press release 30 minutes before the block went live.
It was the operators’ lawyers who asked whether shutting down four platforms nationwide was necessary or proportionate. Orange insisted on a formal, signed order.
France’s top administrative court ruled the 2024 TikTok block in New Caledonia illegal last year. The government drew up a bigger one anyway. Staff were on call all weekend. Nobody pulled the switch this time, but they built it ready for the next one.
reclaimthenet.org/france-sna…
