The Will Spencer Podcast DR. MICHAEL EGNOR - The Brain, the Mind, and the Soul: A Neurosurgeon's Journey from Atheism to Faith
Jul 10, 2025
01:33:06
Dr. Michael Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery at Stony Brook University who has performed over 7,000 brain operations throughout his 40+ year career. In this conversation, he shares groundbreaking evidence from neuroscience that challenges materialist assumptions about consciousness and provides scientific support for the existence of the human soul. The episode explores split-brain surgery, near-death experiences, and how his own conversion from atheism to Christianity was informed by what he observed in the operating room.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Brain surgery can remove major portions without affecting abstract thought or consciousness
- Split-brain patients remain unified persons despite severed hemispheres
- Children missing two-thirds of their brain can develop completely normally
- Near-death experiences show consciousness operating independently of brain function
- Materialism fails to explain how perfect concepts emerge from imperfect brains
- Artificial intelligence cannot achieve true consciousness because machines lack souls
CONNECT WITH DR. EGNOR
- Buy "The Immortal Mind" on Amazon
- https://mindmatters.ai/
- https://evolutionnews.org/
- https://www.discovery.org/p/egnor/
🌟 The Will Spencer Podcast was formerly known as "The Renaissance of Men."