Well, a man by the name of Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize.

He won it for being one of the two scientists who famously discovered the double helix of DNA back in 1953.

I believe that was at Cambridge in the UK.

Four decades later, that same Francis Crick wrote this, quote,

You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions,

your sense of personal identity and free will are, in fact,

no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

In quote, wow.

You basically are what happens materially in your brain.

And when your brain function ends,

you are extinguished.

Poof. Gone.

Of course, the Bible says otherwise.

In this episode, we examine scriptures teaching on the soul,

the consciousness, and how our true personhood survives death and flourishes in the

resurrection. Today, on Ask Pastor John, why our mind cannot die. The question is from

Paul in Indianapolis. Hello, Pastor John. I have a pair of college friends, non-Christians,

obsessed with a debate over the human consciousness and where it exists.

At this point, they're both firmly convinced that the consciousness is non-material,

not explained by physical realities.

They both firmly believe consciousness exists outside or beyond the brain.

Until recently, I was completely uninterested in their debate. Then I began to ponder the

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