This week we start what will likely be a four part series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator.Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004–Interview with J.P Moreland**Ref 1Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025**Ref 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg“Nevertheless, it may be that the origin of life is not the only major gap in the evolutionary story that is bridged by sheer luck, anthropically justified. For example, my colleague, Mark Ridley in Mendel’s Demon…has suggested that the origin of the eukaryotic cell…was an even more momentous, difficult and statistically improbable step than the origin of life. The origin of consciousness might be another major gap whose bridging was of the same order of improbability.Richard Dawkins,The God Delusion,2006“I think therefore I am.” Renea Descartes,Discourse on the Method,1637“We often hear that chimpanzee and human DNA differ by a mere 1 percent. But humans are radically different from chimpanzees–intellectually, morally, and culturally. Well then, we can be sure that some very important things about us are not found in our DNA. Human exceptionalism is the difference between a clever ape’s mind and Einstein’s mind.”**Ref 2 “We humans are the only living creatures on the planet who think about mathematics, science, literature, philosophy, religion, and the whole range of abstract ideas.”**Ref 2 “Thus he concluded that abstract thought is a function of something other than or beyond the physical brain. He came to define the mind as the element in an individual “that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.”**Ref 2Referencing artiicle by Sarah Tippit,“Science Says Mind Continues After the Brain Dies” of a study by Sam Parnia and Peter Fenwick,“He speculated that the brain might serve as a mechanism to manifest the mind, much in the same way a television set manifests pictures and sounds from waves in the air.”**Ref 1www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness1 a:the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneselfb :the state or fact of being conscious of an external object,state,or fact2 :the state of being characterized by sensation,emotion,volition,and thought “Well, a simple definition is that consciousness is what you’re aware of when you introspect. When you pay attention to what’s going on inside of you, that’s consciousness.”**Ref 1 “Self-consciousness implies not only awareness, but also awareness that one is aware–an awareness of self.”**Ref 2 “The point is this, Lee: I am a soul, and I have a body. We don’t learn about people by studying their bodies. We learn about people by finding out how they feel, what they think, what they’re passionate about, what their worldview is, and so forth.”**Ref 1 “That is, Penfield observed that the mind has an existence independent of the brain, and that the mind uses the brain to interact with the world, in a way analogous to the way a computer programmer uses a computer to accomplish tasks.”**Ref 2“The failure to find a “material center of consciousness” in the brain should be taken seriously–it’s not a failure of science; it’s a success of science. It’s strong scientific evidence that points to the truth about the human soul. We haven’t found the material center of consciousness in the brain because the human soul isn’t in the brain.  Consciousness has no location. The human soul is spiritual. But now another question arises. The human soul has an immaterial and immortal element that cannot just be explained away, so how could it have evolved from an animal mind?”**Ref 2

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