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.