I’m not insecure; I’m not the one who depends on invisible friends.
You continue to display your ignorance for all to see – again, a reminder:
Free Republic is Pro-God – are the owners and members idiots? Newton, Copernicus, Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, Faraday, Pascal, Harvey, Boyle, Pasteur, Mendel, Carver, et al. maintained that nature manifests the design of a preexistent mind or intelligence – are these men idiots? The US Constitution assumed all human rights were bestowed to us by our Creator through Natural Law - the founders were idiots?.
You insult a majority in this forum, great scientists, and the founders of this nation with your ignorance. You believe your mind comes from mindlessness – yet reject the consequence of that belief. Your brain becomes just another organ following physics and chemistry – there is not free will – no self – no morality – no reason or logic. You end up no different than a stream flowing through a valley – following only the laws of physics.
Alex Rosenberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Duke University who shares your belief. In his book, The Atheist's Guide To Reality, he wrote:
The neural circuits in our brain manage the beautifully coordinated and smoothly appropriate behavior of our body. They also produce the entrancing introspective illusion that thoughts really are about stuff in the world. This powerful illusion has been with humanity since language kicked in, as we’ll see. It is the source of at least two other profound myths: that we have purposes that give our actions and lives meaning and that there is a person “in there” steering the body, so to speak.
Is he wrong?