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Resurgence of Dualism has Major Apologetic Implications

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I came across a fascinating article and podcast yesterday entitled “Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind is More than the Brain.”1

The reason why this article is significant is because a materialistic view of the world demands that the mind is only the brain, that is, only the physical processes that happen within the brain. This materialistic concept of the mind has been the reigning view for many decades.

This article, however, points out that there have been many dissenters from materialism in the field of neurosurgery. Their view is commonly called dualism.

“In a podcast discussion with Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor talks about how many famous neuroscientists became dualists – that is, they concluded that there is something about human beings that goes beyond matter – based on observations they made during their work [i.e., during the invasive brain surgeries they performed]. Among them was Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) who offered three reasons for his change of mind.”

This article and podcast should be reviewed by anyone interested in Christian apologetics.

For a scholarly review of the resurgence of dualism, read Dusting Off Dualism? by Matthew Owen.

The post first appeared in NewCommandment.org.

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  1. “Why Pioneer Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield Said the Mind is More than the Brain,” Mind Matter News, February 29, 2020, https://mindmatters.ai/2020/02/why-pioneer-neurosurgeon-wilder-penfield-said-the-mind-is-more-than-the-brain/

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Herb Reese
Herb Reese is an author, public speaker and President of New Commandment Men's Ministries. Herb has a B.A. in History from UCLA and a Th.M. in Pastoral Ministries from Dallas Theological Seminary. He has done post graduate work in The History of Ideas at University of Texas, Dallas and in Church Administration at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. After serving as a pastor over a period of twenty years, Herb founded New Commandment Men's Ministries, a ministry dedicated to helping churches recruit, train, organize and deploy teams of men who permanently adopt their widowed and single parents. Herb has served as President of New Commandment since 2003 and has helped 1,000 churches develop men's team ministries in all 50 states and eight foreign countries. Herb and his wife, Patti, live in Arvada, Colorado, and have three adult children.

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