It was Darwin's position that ultimately prevailed in the modern scientific account of human origins.
Bloom himself doesn't "doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience".
Tallis laments phenomenology's failure - how it can never progress beyond subjective experience to its place in a scientific account of the world.
I'm an evangelical Christian, but I have no difficulties in believing that evolution is the best scientific account we have for the diversity of life on our planet.
For the first time in human history, it's possible to give tentative answers that are based on a scientific account of mental processes.
By Carson's own admission, he believes in much of the church's dogma – the Genesis account of creation, for example, rather than the scientific account of human evolution.
While the empathy model still focuses on individuals and provides a scientific account of a fairly traditional notion of character, Zimbardo shifts the focus to social and political issues.
According to the scientific account, losing things represents a failure of recollection or a failure of attention: either we can't retrieve a memory (of where we set down our wallet, say) or we didn't encode one in the first place.
But the profound question that no scientific account can satisfactorily answer is, "Why is this so?" For an answer to the question "Why?," Polkinghorne insists, we are driven by physics beyond physics to metaphysics.
I don't doubt that the explanation for consciousness will arise from the mercilessly scientific account of psychology and neuroscience, but, still, isn't it neat that the universe is such that it gave rise to conscious beings like you and me?
There is also a small group of progressives, many of whom believe in a scientific account of human evolution, inclusion of LGBT individuals in the church and inter-religious dialogue.
