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Exactly one hundred years ago last month was the date of the infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial.” To this date the public impression is that Bible-believing Christians, in general, and creationists, in particular, were shown to be unscientific, foolish buffoons at the trial. This interpretation of the trial was indubitably impressed on the public with the intentionally biased movie Inherit the Wind released some thirty-five years later in 1960 that was based on a fictional play by the same title written in 1955.

What is the human mind? What is its relationship to the brain?

These fundamental questions have captivated human thought for millennia. In the chapter “Neuroscience and Dualism” by Michael Egnor, part of the recently published book Minding the Brain (edited by Angus Menuge, Brian Krouse, and Robert J. Marks), Egnor offers a detailed exploration of these enduring philosophical and scientific issues through the lens of his extensive career in neurosurgery and neuroscience.

The Bible teaches that the Earth and its climate were designed by God for our benefit. There are several remarkable things about our planet that make it habitable for human beings including the Earth’s mass, distance from sun, axial tilt, atmosphere, magnetic field, rotational speed, orbital shape, and the presence of a large moon. Our solar system possesses a unique and special star and has a gas giant like Jupiter with a larger orbit. Even the location of our solar system in the Milky Way galaxy is special. Many of the aforementioned properties of the Earth and solar system make Earth’s climate suitable for us. The habitability of the Earth requires that liquid water be present because all biochemistry requires water.

Abstract

The measuring of the human skull, called craniometry, was exploited in the last century to prove that women had smaller brains compared to men in an attempt to support the notion that they were less-evolved than men. As a result, women were also believed to be less intelligent and inferior to men in other ways. This view, inspired by Charles Darwin, was widely accepted in academia, including by many of Darwin’s leading disciples. It also had a profound negative effect on women’s progress, especially educationally, socially, and economically.

Is Answers in Genesis Going the Way of the International Conference on Creationism?