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How science leads atheists to faith.
Throughout human history, most people understood that human beings are physical beings, but also spiritual. People have physical bodies, but they are also non-material beings, with things like a soul, consciousness, and a mind. But militant Darwinists and atheists have rejected that understanding of what it means to be human.
Most of them are naturalists who insist that we are physical beings only. They claim there are no supernatural and metaphysical realities. In fields such as neuroscience, many claim there is no such thing as a mind, only a brain. But that is really a philosophical presupposition as opposed to scientific fact.
I have written often on such matters, including this two-part piece: (1)(2)
Continued below.
Throughout human history, most people understood that human beings are physical beings, but also spiritual. People have physical bodies, but they are also non-material beings, with things like a soul, consciousness, and a mind. But militant Darwinists and atheists have rejected that understanding of what it means to be human.
Most of them are naturalists who insist that we are physical beings only. They claim there are no supernatural and metaphysical realities. In fields such as neuroscience, many claim there is no such thing as a mind, only a brain. But that is really a philosophical presupposition as opposed to scientific fact.
I have written often on such matters, including this two-part piece: (1)(2)
Making the Scientific Case for the Soul
Continued below.