"Questions pop up from the proposition that the mind is essentially material.
Q: What is consciousness? A recent paper in PNAS assumes human
consciousness evolved and differs only in degree, not in kind, from that of the animals. Materialists have a burden to prove their consciousness accords with reality.
Q: What is scientific evidence, and how can we trust it? A PhysOrg article assumes scientists can be objective and unbiased – loaded words for an evolved monkey’s brain.
Q: What is reason, compared with madness, and who decides who is mad? (see Science book review about psychiatry’s controversial diagnostic manual DSM-5). Materialists must convince skeptics that they are the sane ones, yet it would be insane to consider reason or logic as evolvable entities.
Q: What is justice and fairness? Another PNAS paper considers those moral qualities nothing more than game theory applied to animal behavior. Honesty, though, is another precondition for science. The authors must convince their readers they are interested in the truth, not just playing games." CEH
