In short, there is no trustworthy evidence against mind-brain physicalism. Notably, even religious scholars are beginning to concede this. Christian editors Warren Brown, Nancey Murphy, and H. Newton Malony, in Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (1998), declare, “We have written from the perspective that views soul as a functional capacity of a complex physical organism, rather than a separate spiritual essence that somehow inhabits a body. We have adopted this position because we believe it is the best way to incorporate and reconcile all the
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