The Mind-Brain Connection

[HaplessCrewman]

Heard this on the radio the other day.

These days, some Darwin skeptics are focusing on the human brain. They say a higher power must be involved; otherwise, how could a bunch of cells produce such complicated mental processes as consciousness or subjective experiences? How could something like free will be the result of evolution?

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100867217

Seems to me like another variant on the "Intelligent Design" hoax. When will it all end?

 

[RJDiogenes]

When will it all end? Probably not for another hundred years or so. The amount of information in everyday circulation must exceed the current lowest common denominator.

This approach has a special irony since it evokes both complexity and subjectivity.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Heard this on the radio the other day.

These days, some Darwin skeptics are focusing on the human brain. They say a higher power must be involved; otherwise, how could a bunch of cells produce such complicated mental processes as consciousness or subjective experiences? How could something like free will be the result of evolution?

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100867217

Seems to me like another variant on the "Intelligent Design" hoax. When will it all end?

I still don't understand why people act as though a person cannot be of faith and fully accept science--and by that I mean mainstream science. This is just a false conflict where none need exist, and all it does is make both sides look silly and closed-minded.