Thomas Nagel"The Last Word"Cited by Turek on p110 of Stealing from God "Mind and Cosmos"Cited by Thomas on p86 of Taking Leave of Darwin "But if the mental is not itself merely physical, it cannot be fully explained by physical science. Evolutionary naturalism implies that we shouldn't take any of our convictions seriously, including the scientific world picture on which evolutionary naturalism itself depends. " p14 Cited by Lennox on p49 of Can Science Explain Everything "I find the confidence among the scientific establishment that the whole scenario will yield to a purely chemical explanation hard to understand, except as a manifestation of an axiomatic commitment to reductive materialism." p49. "I would like to defend the untutored reaction of incredulity to the reductionist neo-Darwinian account of the origin and evolution of life. It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection ... I find this view antecedently unbelievable - a heroic triumph of ideological theory over common sense. The empirical evidence can be interpreted to accommodate different comprehensive theories but in this case the cost in conceptual and probabilistic contortions is prohibitive." p6,128 Cited by Thomas on p15 of Taking Leave of Darwin
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