God explains the existence of consciousness
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“Certainly, evolutionary processes produce the existence of animal bodies and human beings by virtue of the laws of nature discovered by the physical sciences [...]. But there is more to human beings than their bodies. Human beings (and higher animals) are conscious beings. They have thoughts and impressions; atoms have no thoughts or impressions. Consciousness [...] cannot be the property of a mere body, or of a material object. It must be a property of something else in relation to the body; and to this something else I will give the traditional name of soul. At a certain stage of evolution, the bodies of complex animals were linked to souls. This is [...] something absolutely beyond the explanatory power of science. Theism, on the other hand, can explain it: God has the power to link souls to bodies, and He has reason to do so.”