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What worldview best explains the human capacity to think and make rational inferences? According to the ‘argument from reason’, this is strong evidence for the existence of God, especially the Creator God of the Bible. If humans were created in God’s image and God designed our minds, it is unsurprising that they work and can perform impressive feats. But if atheism is true and humans are merely accidental byproducts of evolution, what is the likelihood such a blind process would produce creatures who can reason properly?

To delve more deeply into this topic, Dawn Blount interviews Keaton Halley, an apologist with Creation Ministries International. They discuss rationality, consciousness, natural selection, randomness, and evidence for the soul. At the end of the day, it’s clear that reason requires God. As C.S. Lewis once noted, the human ability to think and reason is the “cardinal difficulty with naturalism”.

⏳ CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
03:15 Why evolution can’t create rationality
05:03 How evolutionists say minds could evolve
07:41 Wouldn’t death outpace evolution?
10:01 Why would creation make more sense?
14:21 Defining ‘consciousness’
18:08 Do animals have consciousness?
20:38 Can minds become more complex?
23:45 Evidence for souls
26:41 Why God created rational creatures
28:47 Wrap-up

✍️ LINKS AND SHOW NOTES
• Monkey minds: How evolution undercuts reason and science https://creation.com/monkey-minds
• Can evolution produce rational minds? https://creation.com/evolution-ration...
• The epistemic abyss of naturalistic evolution https://creation.com/epistemic-abyss-...
• Memory, the brain, and the soul https://creation.com/memory-brain-soul

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