37. ATHEIST-MATERIALIST APPROACH FAILS, BUT I’VE YET TO PROVE GOD’S EXISTENCE
But even if we do not take it in this direction (although quite a few philosophers and scientists follow it), it is clear that consciousness is a miracle that requires explanation, and that the atheist-materialist approach is unable to explain it.
36. MY CONCLUSION: HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS DIDN’T EVOLVE BY CHANCE
These mysteries and many more illustrate how unlikely it is to see in human consciousness as something that “grew by chance” from matter, as a result of blind evolutionary processes.
35. IS MATHEMATICS THE KEY?
One of the great mysteries is the meaning of the miraculous correspondence between mathematical concepts and the structure of the universe and the laws of nature.
34. LET’S COMPARE TO ANTS
Countless species on earth, such as insects, do not have real awareness as far as we know, and yet they have survived and thrive for much longer than human existence in the world.
33. IS CONSCIOUSNESS A MIRACLE? WOULD IT UNDERSTAND THE UNIVERSE?
Not only is the very existence of consciousness a miracle that is not understood in the materialistic world, but so is our ability to understand the universe.
32. CONSCIOUSNESS IS FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT FROM MATTER
Complex things have features that are not in the details that make them up, or so-called emergences (like the moisture of the water, which does not exist in individual molecules but exists in the whole).
31. MATERIALISTS CLAIM BRAIN EXCRETES CONSCIOUSNESS
Materialists claim that consciousness is nothing but a product of matter, something that appears in some way from brain activity – just as the kidneys excrete urine, so the brain excretes consciousness.
THE EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Human consciousness is an absolute wonder. It is the thing through which we think, understand and perceive reality, create, feel, and experience. It is in fact the only thing we experience directly, in the first person, with absolute certainty. And yet, the essence of consciousness itself is a mystery. Its very existence is an appeal […]
30. WHAT ATHEISTS MAY GET WRONG
All this is based on the assumption that GOD is indeed something “complex.” Before Dawkins, many philosophers and theologians argued that GOD is not complex at all, but merely the purpose of the raids until any definition could define it.
29. AN ATHEISTIC ARGUMENT
As noted by the philosopher (atheist) Daniel Hume, this is an old and unfounded argument that a philosophy student with good talent can refute. For an explanation to be successful, there is no need for an explanatory answer.