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Now here's your host, Jay Warner Wallace.

Thanks for joining us at Cold Case Christianity.

I'm Jay Warner Wallace.

Today we're going to talk about a piece of evidence that I think is often overlooked, but

I think it's of critical importance as we examine whether or not naturalism can explain the universe in which we live.

Today we're going to look at a piece of evidence that I think points to the existence of God.

And that is, you know, the explanation for what we all experience as consciousness, our own sense of our ability to consciously perceive who we are,

think about the world around us, feel certain reactions to certain events, certain sensations, desires, emotions.

This experience we have of our own conscious life is really kind of difficult to explain from a materialistic perspective.

Let me back up a little bit and explain what I mean.

I've recently written a book called God's crime scene, and it really is an effort to look at the entire universe

the same way we might look at a crime scene from an investigative perspective, and here's what I mean. I take an approach that is

really similar to walking into any death scene and trying to determine if in fact the best

explanation for this scene is a murder or is it perhaps an accident or a natural death or a suicide.

Well how do we determine whether a death is a murder rather than the

other three kinds of deaths that really don't involve criminal investigators like detectives?

Well, one of the simplest ways of doing this is a little game I call inside or outside the room.

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