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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

human mind, which is not something that can be
seen or touched. Moreover, there is no "mind center" in the
brain. Inevitably, this leads us to conceive of the mind as some-

thing beyond matter. That is, what we call "I"—the thinking, lov-
ing personality able to feel pleasure and pain, that gets upset or
happy is not a material object like a table or a stone.
However, materialists claim that mind can be reduced to mat-
ter. They claim that our ability to think, love, feel regret and all
other mental activities are actually products of chemical reactions
among the atoms in our brain. When we love someone, it is the in-

fluence of neurochemicals in certain cells in our brain; if we fear
anything, that is due to another chemical reaction. Of this logic,
the materialist philosopher Karl Vogt said, "the brain secretes
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thought just as the liver secretes bile." Bile is a material substance,
but there is no proof that a thought is material.
Reductionism is a strictly logical operation. But any logical
operation may rest on false foundations. One of the important
methods in determining if this is so is by appealing to science. For
this reason, we must pose the following question: Can reduction-

ism—the basis of materialist logic—be substantiated in the light of
scientific data?
In the 20th century, all scientific investigations, all observa-
tions, and the results of all experiments have given a resounding
"No" to this question.
Dr. Werner Gitt, director at the German Federal Institute of
Physics and Technology, says this:

A coding system always entails a nonmaterial intellectual
process. A physical matter cannot produce an infor-
mation code. All experiences show that every

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