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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

It is hard to accept the evolution of the human eye as a product of
chance; it is even harder to accept the evolution of human intelli-
gence as the product of random disruptions in the brain cells of our
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Darwinists must have realized that their claims regarding the
evolution of human consciousness, based solely upon interpreta-
tion, were inadequate, inasmuch as they felt the need to dress the
matter up with scientific terminology. They therefore suggested a
concept they called “the phenomenon of emergence,” which, they
claimed, played a role.
According to Darwinists, a pure chance phenomenon could
lead to the unexpected emergence of something else. They claimed
that water was a classic scientific example. On their own, hydrogen
and oxygen do not bear any water-like characteristics, but the wa-
ter molecules that emerge when these chemicals are combined in a
specific ratio exhibit properties that could not have been predicted
beforehand, from either gas. Evolutionists sought to apply this
chemical observation to the subject of human consciousness, claim-
ing that some random change in the chemistry of the brain lay at
the root of human consciousness. This hypothesis—completely
untestable and for which there is no scientific evidence—was a
clear indication of the despairing position in which they found
themselves. This exceedingly illogical claim is of course technical-
ly impossible. As everyone is perfectly well aware, human con-
sciousness is not a phenomenon linked to physical laws in the
same way that water is. The way you can imagine the appearance,
smell and taste of a strawberry or the faces and voices of your rel-
atives as if they were present is not, of course, the result of the at-
oms in your brain producing something that was hitherto un-
known. The perception of all these things happens of your voli-
tion, and is something you are thinking about at that moment.
It is impossible for physical atoms and molecules with

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