Friday, October 11, 2013

Conflicted atheism …

… Mind and Cosmos - Reformation21. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The core thesis of Mind and Cosmos can be simply stated. Darwinian materialism has failed to account for several undeniable features of human existence: consciousness, reason, meaning, and moral values. The problem is not that the answers haven't yet been found, but rather thatthe paradigm itself precludes any satisfactory answers. All attempts to explain the mental and the moral in terms of the physical have been unsuccessful, and will continue to be. What is needed is not a novel Darwinian materialist solution, but rather a wholesale rejection of that paradigm in favor of a non-materialist (but non-supernaturalist) paradigm.
THis is an excellent piece of analysis. Read the whole thing.

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