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Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall has evidently not read Professor Thomas Nagel's book, 'Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False."
Professor Thomas Nagel is a doctor of philosophy at New York University. Nagel is not an atheist. He is an anti-theist. He does not want God to exist. He wants atheism to be true.
Yet this is what he says.
Nagel believes that the Neo-Darwinian concept of nature is fundamentally flawed. "Humanity cannot take adequate account of this world until we make room for mind and consciousness as equal partners in reality with the physical universe", he says.
Nagel has serious doubts of whether the reality of such features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, purpose, thought, imagination, morality and values, can be accommodated in a universe consisting at the most basic level, of only physical facts. Facts however sophisticated, of the kind revealed only by the physical sciences.
As a philosopher, Nagel is convinced that physicalism or any kind of reality that claims that there is no mind beyond the physical universe, cannot account adequately for such features of the world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning or purpose.
Nagel goes on to say that, "Consciousness is the conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies solely on the sources of physical science. If we take this problem seriously and follow out its implications", he claims, "it threatens to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture."
Nagel claims at the end of his book, that he would be willing to bet that the present consensus of a naturalistic, materialistic, physicalistic universe, will come to seem laughable in a generation or two. However, it may be replaced by a new consensus that is just as invalid.
I am a Gap or Ruin/Reconstruction creationist. That is my creation view which I find to be the most consistent creation view throughout all of Scripture.
If you have not read Nagel's book, I highly suggest everyone to read it. It is about 130 pages long. If you believe in Darwinian evolution, Nagel's book will make you seriously question your worldview.
If you do not believe in Darwinian evolution, Nagel's book should cement the fact that there is indeed a vast, intellectual mind behind the evidence of a physical universe we live in, whom we as Christians call God.
Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall has evidently not read Professor Thomas Nagel's book, 'Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False."
Professor Thomas Nagel is a doctor of philosophy at New York University. Nagel is not an atheist. He is an anti-theist. He does not want God to exist. He wants atheism to be true.
Yet this is what he says.
Nagel believes that the Neo-Darwinian concept of nature is fundamentally flawed. "Humanity cannot take adequate account of this world until we make room for mind and consciousness as equal partners in reality with the physical universe", he says.
Nagel has serious doubts of whether the reality of such features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, purpose, thought, imagination, morality and values, can be accommodated in a universe consisting at the most basic level, of only physical facts. Facts however sophisticated, of the kind revealed only by the physical sciences.
As a philosopher, Nagel is convinced that physicalism or any kind of reality that claims that there is no mind beyond the physical universe, cannot account adequately for such features of the world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning or purpose.
Nagel goes on to say that, "Consciousness is the conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies solely on the sources of physical science. If we take this problem seriously and follow out its implications", he claims, "it threatens to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture."
Nagel claims at the end of his book, that he would be willing to bet that the present consensus of a naturalistic, materialistic, physicalistic universe, will come to seem laughable in a generation or two. However, it may be replaced by a new consensus that is just as invalid.
I am a Gap or Ruin/Reconstruction creationist. That is my creation view which I find to be the most consistent creation view throughout all of Scripture.
If you have not read Nagel's book, I highly suggest everyone to read it. It is about 130 pages long. If you believe in Darwinian evolution, Nagel's book will make you seriously question your worldview.
If you do not believe in Darwinian evolution, Nagel's book should cement the fact that there is indeed a vast, intellectual mind behind the evidence of a physical universe we live in, whom we as Christians call God.