Ruling the evidence out of court

Materialists like to claim that there is no evidence for creation. If this is so, it's only because certain kinds of evidence has been ruled out of court.

Quotes and comments;

A. "For much of the twentieth century, the problem of consciousness was simply avoided. Starting before World War 1, the reigning movement in psychology was behaviorism, which ruled out discussing mental events." [1.]

- We might say that in the same way that Behaviorism rules out mind, Darwinism rules out design. i.e. it's a matter of methodology rather than data or evidence. Despite B.F. Skinner and later peers, consciousness still exists. Putting on eye shades doesn't make the world disappear. The fact that physicists tell us reality is composed of particles doesn't do away with human experience.

B. "As we have seen, most theories of mind and consciousness are based in classical physics, which treats consciousness as an anomaly to be explained away." [2.]

- As materialism treats consciousness as an anomaly to be explained away, so Darwinism treats design as something to be explained away.
- As materialism can't account for consciousness, Darwinism can't account for complex, specified information.

C. "After a century or more of looking, brain researchers have long since concluded that there is no conceivable place for such a self to be located in the physical brain, and that it simply doesn't exist." [3.]

- As materialists claim consciousness is an illusion, Darwinists claim design is an illusion. (e.g. "All we see is the appearance of design,'' says e. guru Richard Dawkins. i.e. we don't see design, just what looks like design.)
- As most neuroscientists deny that the self exists, so materialists deny that God exists.
- If there is no self man becomes an it, an object. As materialism turns man into an object, so it turns God's creation into a hunk of matter.

D. 116. As neuroscientists deny free will, so materialists deny divine creation.

E. "Of course the placebo effect doesn't make sense if you assume that the mind does not exist or is powerless." [4.]

- As the placebo effect refutes reductionism, so complex information (genetic code) refutes evolutionary materialism.

Notes;
1. Spiritual Brain - Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary/p.109
2. ibid p. 111
3. ibid p.115 quoting Lemonick
4. ibid p.141