Most notably, physics, the hardest and most rigorous branch of science, now contradicts the view that material existence is all that there is. Indeed, consciousness is woven into quantum mechanics, the fundamental explanation of matter and energy.
Quantum entanglement, which arises from the wave-particle duality of energy and matter, is well-recognized and firmly established. Recently, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists whose decades of work refuted the so-called hidden variable explanation for quantum entanglement. This tacitly confirms that consciousness is real.
On that basis, scrupulous atheists now have to take consciousness seriously. Like matter, it seems plausible that the realm of consciousness is organized in some manner. For humans at least, this implies the existence of a soul as well as the existence of other conscious entities -- perhaps even God as a Supreme Being.
Thanks, a very good addition. Should I add Quantum entanglement to the list of keywords?
On that basis, scrupulous atheists now have to take consciousness seriously. Like matter, it seems plausible that the realm of consciousness is organized in some manner. For humans at least, this implies the existence of a soul as well as the existence of other conscious entities -- perhaps even God as a Supreme Being.
Not likely the latter, for while the existence of aliens and "space seed" is allowed as a hypothesis, usually a creator-judge is verbotten.