by Henry Morris, Ph.D. * In a recent book, two eminent authors
(both evolutionists) give a glowing assessment of the human mind
and the brain through which it functions. The human brain is the
most astonishing and mysterious of all known complex systems.
Inside this mass of billions of neurons, information flows in
ways that we are only starting to understand. The memories of a
summer day on the beach when we were kids; imagination; our
dreams of impossible worlds. Consciousness. Our surprising
capacity for mathematical generalization and understanding of
deep, sometimes counter intuitive, questions about the universe.
Our brains are capable of this and much more. How? We don't
know: the mind is a daunting problem for science.1 This
testimony brings to mind a statement made more than thirty years
ago by the atheistic biochemist, Isaac Asimov, arguably the most
prolific scientist writer of all time. He said that: . . . in
man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most
complex and orderly arra