When you reduce a human to a machine or an animal, in doing that, you undermine everything that is uniquely human.

Our moral sense, our religious sensibilities, our experience of freedom and choice, all of those things have to go.

They have to disappear. The possibility of science itself,

because science depends on us having dependable cognitive faculties. But if those cognitive faculties

are just the result of uncaring, unplanned random processes, then we don't have any grounds for

having confidence in them.

Welcome to the Crossway podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week

for thoughtful interviews about the Bible, theology, church history, and the Christian life.

I'm Matt Tully, and today I'm talking with Brad Sickler.

Brad currently serves as an associate professor of philosophy and the program

director for the Master of Arts in Theological Studies at the University of Northwestern St. Paul.

He's also the author of God on the Brain, What Cognitive Science Does and Does Not Tell Us

about faith, human nature, and the divine from Crossway. Today, Brad and I discuss how Christians should think about recent developments in our understanding

of the brain and cognitive science.

He explains why all science entails philosophical assumptions stemming from a person's worldview,

highlights how science and the Bible both speak to the physical and spiritual dimensions of what it means to be human

and answers the question we've all wondered. Is it true that we only use 10% of our brains? Let's get started.

Brad, thank you so much for joining us today on the Crossway podcast. Well, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me.

So I was doing a little bit of

reading about you before we sat down here today, and you seemed to be a man of many interests.

So just looking at the list of things that you've published or contributions you made to books is pretty

telling. So one article, I think, was laws of nature and God's existence.

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