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Part 2 Part two, further analyses and discussion.

Now, Richard, one really interesting aspect of your argument is your appeal to consciousness,

a topic we've discussed at great length on the show before.

You tell us that the mystery of consciousness,

the origin of that what it's likeness, can't be explained by the materialist atheist,

and therefore this counts as evidence in favor of theism. As you put it yourself, quote,

at some time in evolutionary history, bodies of complex animals became connected to souls, and this is

something utterly beyond the power of science. A couple of questions come to mind when I read that

extract. First, at what points and why would a soul attach to the body of an animal?

Let's go back a little. The first claim is that nothing like contemporary science could possibly explain that.

There is to say contemporary science is concerned with the interactions of physical particles,

but the brain consists of physical particles interacting, but they produce thoughts and feelings and desires

and so on, which is something extra, because to talk about desires and so on doesn't

entail goings on in the brain, nor conversely. It is possible, logically possible, even if

isstemically possible.

There might be laws connecting certain brain states with certain conscious states.

The trouble is that there would have to be a few billion such laws because although you can

analyze physical goings on in terms of the interaction

of 30 or so different kinds of particles having four or five different kinds of forces,

you only need a few laws to do this.

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