forerunner of the new atheists, Crick used research in neuroscience to advocate atheistic materialism in his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis. He wrote, “The Astonishing Hypothesis is that ‘You,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.”[6]
