Are We Just Our Brains? How the Human Mind Defies Materialism.


Presented by Dr Melissa Cain Travis

Author and Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture

In our technological age, science as an enterprise enjoys a high level of cultural influence. To be a rational and educated person is to accept a thoroughly “scientific” worldview—which typically means rejecting the idea of a human soul. However, it turns out that the very foundations of science cannot survive a materialist view of human persons. Genuine rationality, and hence all scientific activity, have enormous implications for the existence of the soul.

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