Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Crick ends the book with a treatise explaining away free will as attributable to certain areas of the brain.51 Once again, he is clearly denying what the ordinary person would consider logical, based upon his or her own experience of life. He must find a material explanation in the physical brain to maintain his atheism. He would not dare for a moment to consider the possibility of a nonmaterial explanation, even though many scientists who are not theists but agnostics freely admit the overwhelming evidence that thoughts are not material.