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Darwin’s Dilemma: The Soul

their physical natures to combine in different ways to produce
the metaphysical concept of “consciousness.”
As the philosopher and writer Christian de Quincey states,
“Scientists are in the strange position of being confronted daily by
the indisputable fact of their own consciousness, yet with no way
of explaining it.” 127
The evolutionist scientist J. Hawkes says this in an article pub-
lished in the New York Times Magazine:

I find it difficult to believe that the extravagant glories of birds, fish,
flowers and other living forms were produced solely by natural se-
lection; I find it incredible that human consciousness was such a
product. How can man’s brain, the instrument which created all the
riches of civilization, which served Socrates, Shakespeare,
Rembrandt, and Einstein, have been brought into being by a strug-
gle for survival . . . ? 128

This is merely a Darwinist dream, one that they intensely long
to be proved true. Consciousness can definitely not be explained in
terms of the ridiculous and unproven claims of evolution.
Could an entity who enjoys the rhythm of the music, enjoys a
meal or else finds it lacking in flavor, loves and feels affection for
another person, who investigates its own identity, who examines

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