Counterexamples to materialism

Materialism cannot explain nature's beauty.

See: Argument from beauty

Counterexamples to materialism include:

1. Homing conduct by many birds
2. Migratory conduct by butterflies
3. Action-at-a-distance in physics
4. Animals fleeing to high ground in anticipation of a tsunami
5. The origin of life
6. Human consciousness (see: Atheism and consciousness)
7. Nature's beauty (see: Argument from beauty)
8. Prime number identification among large numbers quickly by some people who cannot do basic arithmetic
9. Origin of the universe. (See: Atheism and the origin of the universe)
10. Materialism can't account for the existence of the laws of logic. (See: Atheism and logic)
11. Exorcisms with accompanying supernatural events that are visible such as supernaturally moving objects (See: Demonic possession)
12. Stigmata
13. Demonically haunted houses with supernatural events that defy a natural explanation
14. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy in a twin
15. Extraordinary acts of good that defy a plausible physical explanation, such as a grandmother lifting a car to save a child.
16. biorhythms, whereby some people become very sleepy, very alert, or experience particular anxiety at approximately the same time on the clock each day.

See also

• Arguments for the existence of God
• Logical arguments for the existence of God
• Atheism
• Philosophical naturalism
• Counterexamples to evolution