J. P. Moreland reasons his way to evidence for the soul

And captures his discoveries in a book, Finding Quiet: My Story of Overcoming Anxiety and the Practices that Brought Peace (May 2019), on overcoming anxiety and depression:

To find peace, he had to think carefully about the difference between the evolutionary materialist account of the human being and what he was actually experiencing. A partial transcript follows: J.P. Moreland: Evolutionary theory implies that we should be completely material beings. Darwin himself saw that to be true and the reason is because evolution is a purely physical story about how purely physical processes such as mutation and natural selection and genetic drift changed purely physical characteristics for reproductive advantage.

“Theologian battling depression reaffirms the existence of the soul” at Mind Matters News

See also: Can physics prove there is no free will? (neurosurgeon Michael Egnor)

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