J.P. Moreland on Consciousness and Naturalism
An email response to Amanda Gefter's "Creationists Declare War over the Brain", The New Scientist (October, 22 2008). Cited in "EPS Philosophers Respond to New Scientist Article On 'Creationism' and Materialism" on the Evangelical Philosophical Society Blog (October 23, 2008).
The simple truth is that in both science and philosophy, strict
physicalist analysis of consciousness and the self have been breaking
down since the mid-1980s. The problems with physicalism have nothing
directly to do with theism; they follow from rigorous treatments of
consciousness and the self as we know them to be. The real problem
comes in trying to explain its origin and for this problem, naturalism
in general and Darwinism in particular, are useless. In my view, the
only two serious contenders are theism and panpsychism which, contrary
to the musings of some, has throughout the history of philosophy been
correctly taken as a rival to and not a specification of naturalism.
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