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Creationists declare war over the brain
• 22 October 2008
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• Amanda Gefter
"YOU cannot overestimate," thundered psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz,
"how threatened the scientific establishment is by the fact that it
now looks like the materialist paradigm is genuinely breaking down.
You're gonna hear a lot in the next calendar year about... how
Darwin's explanation of how human intelligence arose is the only
scientific way of doing it... I'm asking us as a world community to go
out there and tell the scientific establishment, enough is enough!
Materialism needs to start fading away and non-materialist causation
needs to be understood as part of natural reality."
His enthusiasm was met with much applause from the audience gathered
at the UN's east Manhattan conference hall on 11 September for an
international symposium called Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New
Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness. Earlier Mario Beauregard, a
researcher in neuroscience at the University of Montreal, Canada, and
co-author of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the
existence of the soul, told the audience that the "battle" between
"maverick" scientists like himself and those who "believe the mind is
what the brain does" is a "cultural war".
Schwartz and Beauregard are part of a growing "non-material
neuroscience" movement. They are attempting to resurrect Cartesian
dualism - the idea that brain and mind are two fundamentally different
kinds of things, material and immaterial - in the hope that it will
make room in science both for supernatural forces and for a soul. The
two have signed the "Scientific dissent from Darwinism" petition,
spearheaded by the Seattle-basedDiscovery Institute, headquarters of
the intelligent design movement. ID argues that biological life is too
complex to have arisen through evolution.
Old hats Maru
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William T Goodall
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