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interaction of neurons: "How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of
consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as
unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin, when Aladdin rubbed his
lamp." 30
From Huxley's time until the present, the failure to explain human

consciousness through neurons hasn't changed. However, this is not because of
the inadequacy of science regarding this issue. In contrast, especially towards
the end of the 20th century, there have been many developments in the field of
neurology with many mysteries being solved. However, these findings have
showed that human consciousness can never be reduced to matter and the
reality lies beyond the material. One of the leading Darwinist-materialist
writers in Germany, Hoimar Von Ditfurth, also confesses the fact that the

currently adopted methods cannot describe human consciousness:
With our present research in natural history and genetic development, it
is obvious that we will not be able to give an answer to what
consciousness, spirit, intelligence and feelings are. That is because
psychic-consciousness level is the highest level that evolution has arrived,
at least in this world. Therefore, although we are able to look at the other
stages and phases of evolution from the outside, by rising above them,
again by the help of our consciousness, we are unable to approach
consciousness (or spirit) itself in a similar way. That is because no level
higher than consciousness is available to us. 31
American philosopher and doctor of mathematics, William A. Dembski,
states in his article, "Converting Matter into Mind", that the bio-chemical

functioning of neurons in the human brain and which mental functions it
involves have been understood, although qualities such as decision making,
wishing, or reasoning cannot be "reduced to matter". Dembski also points out
that specialists on consciousness have realized the error of reductionism;
…Cognitive scientists abandon hope of understanding this higher level
through the lower neurological level. …Thus while the commitment to
materialism persists, the hope of explaining human intelligence at the
neural level, which for the materialist is the logical level, is not a serious
consideration. 32

It is impossible to describe consciousness with a materialist worldview,
regardless of the extent of scientific development. As details of the brain

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