Page 255 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

ime magazine carried an article called "Your Mind,
Your Body" in its February 17, 2003, edition. It was
suggested that the Cartesian separation of mind
and body no longer applies, and that psychologists
T and neurologists are now agreed that mind and
body are interconnected. The claims in this article, written by
Michael L. Lemonick, consist of nothing but deceptions. All
Lemonick does is to set out his own materialist fantasies, though he
is unable to offer a shred of scientific evidence to back them up.
Lemonick maintains that the thoughts and emotions that color
our reality are the result of complicated electrochemical effects tak-
ing place within and among the nerve cells. As evidence for these
claims, he suggests that the feelings of low self-esteem and self-ha-
tred that appear in schizophrenia and depression have nothing to
do with reality, but rather consist of faults in the electrochemical
system in the brain.
Lemonick's interpretation, which makes the mind and body
one, is nothing more than a dogmatic claim lacking any kind of sci-
entific and rational foundation. Even today the materialists' mind-
body problem has not been solved. In other words, the question of
how consciousness (the state of a person's having knowledge of,
understanding, thinking
about, interpreting, and
feeling his surroundings
and himself) could have
come about in a piece of
flesh like the brain has not
yet been resolved.

Materialist philosophers can
never explain the source of
human consciousness. In order
not to accept the fact that there
is a being beyond the material
world, they attempt to reduce
human intelligence to matter.

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