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- Nothing on this blog represents the position of Denver Seminary. I am a Christian, philosopher, teacher, writer, and preacher, who is Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary. My most recent of my twelve books is Philosophy in Seven Sentences. My magnum opus is Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2011). I have published ten others, including Truth Decay and On Jesus. I direct the Christian Apologetics and Ethics MA program at Denver Seminary.
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Tallis writes, "If there isn't an evolutionary explanation of consciousness, then the world is more interesting than biologists would allow."
James Le Fanu comes to a very similar conclusion in his recent book Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves.
Their works, interestingly enough, focus on separate but complementary "crises" in any strict materialist explanation of consciousness. Le Fanu takes as the "crisis" not the problematic emergence of consciousness (as Tallis does here), but the actual facts of how the human mind works based on the current state of brain science.
Materialists will never realize that they have it backwards. Matter reduces to Mind, not the other way around!
The scientist tossing out “mind” is sort of like the mathematician tossing out “infinity”, and re-writing all his equations accordingly.
As Bertrand Russell's grand-mother purportedly said, "What is mind - never matter ... what is matter - never mind."
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