Counterexamples to materialism
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Counterexamples to materialism include:
- Homing conduct by many birds
- Migratory conduct by butterflies
- Action-at-a-distance in physics
- Animals fleeing to high ground in anticipation of a tsunami[1]
- The origin of life[2]
- Human consciousness[3] (see: Atheism and consciousness)
- Nature's beauty (see: Argument from beauty)
- Prime number identification among large numbers quickly by some people who cannot do basic arithmetic
- Origin of the universe.[4][5] (See: Atheism and the origin of the universe)
- Materialism can't account for the existence of the laws of logic.[6][7] (See: Atheism and logic)
- stigmata
- reflex sympathetic dystrophy in a twin[8]
- Extraordinary acts of good that defy a plausible physical explanation, such as a grandmother lifting a car to save a child.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ https://www.kpax.com/news/a-wilder-view/a-wilder-view-can-animals-sense-oncoming-natural-disasters#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20well,ground%20before%20the%20wave%20hit.
- ↑ Origin of life
- ↑ The Argument from Consciousness for the Existence of God by John Piippo, 3/20/2012
- Consciousness: One of Atheism's Irresolvable Problems by John Piippo, 4/14/2014
- ↑ Can the laws of science explain the origin of the universe?
- ↑ Hawking atheopathy by Jonathan Sarfati
- ↑ Atheism: An Irrational Worldview by Dr. Jason Lisle on October 10, 2007
- ↑ Is God Real? Examining Atheistic Explanations for the Laws of Logic as “Brute Realities”
- ↑ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9928655/
- ↑ Medium: "If this sounds like a made-up story, it one hundred percent is not."