(OPINION) ETH – A leading theologian is claiming that the human conscience could be one of the most solid proofs that God exists according to a report from Express. By definition, human Consciousness is “The state of being aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings.”, “A person’s awareness or perception of something.” and “The fact of awareness by the mind of itself and the world.”
This mystery has confounded scientists for centuries, with there so far being an inability to define what exactly in our brain gives us this power. With the lack of scientific explanation for this phenomenon, one theologian has come out believing a logical explanation for our consciousness could be the existence of God.
Robert Nelson, the author of several books querying the existence of God such as the 2015 book ‘God? Very Probably: Five Rational Ways to Think about the Question of a God’, said that there is no physical evidence of the consciousness. Therefore it is of reason to believe that this is almost supernatural, in the sense that experts know it is there, but there is nothing to physically define.
Nelson recently said: “How can physical atoms and molecules, for example, create something that exists in a separate domain that has no physical existence: human consciousness? “It is a mystery that lies beyond science. “This mystery is the same one that existed in the Greek worldview of Plato, who believed that abstract ideas (above all mathematical) first existed outside any physical reality.
“The material world that we experience as part of our human existence is an imperfect reflection of these prior formal ideals. “As the scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, Ian Mueller, writes in ‘Mathematics And The Divine’, the realm of such ideals is that of God. “Like the laws of mathematics, consciousness has no physical presence in the world; the images and thoughts in our consciousness have no measurable dimensions. “Yet, our nonphysical thoughts somehow mysteriously guide the actions of our physical human bodies.
“This is no more scientifically explicable than the mysterious ability of nonphysical mathematical constructions to determine the workings of a separate physical world. “Until recently, the scientifically unfathomable quality of human consciousness inhibited the very scholarly discussion of the subject.
“Since the 1970s, however, it has become a leading area of inquiry among philosophers. “I would argue that the supernatural character of the workings of human consciousness adds grounds for raising the probability of the existence of a supernatural god.”
At the end of the day, no one can definitevely explain to us what and how our conscience works from a human, scientific standpoint and all experts will agree there is a lot further to go before there is a definitive conclusion on what, and where, consciousness is.
Our non physical thoughts guide the actions of our physical bodies. This happens with all animals. A monkey decides to pick a banana, then picks it and eats it. A hungry lion decides to hunt for food etc.