Genes Brains, Minds: The Human Complex
— Bulkeley, 2005

"Genes, Brains, Minds: The Human Complex," in Kelly Bulkeley, ed., Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pages 10-35. Online at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/37444

In Earth's genetic natural history, the most complex thing generated is the human mind. Once critics said that mind is rare, an epiphenomenon, a freakish accident. Scientists now realize that anomalous events can be quite relevatory. What we humans have cognitively become, and what we morally ought to be, reveals more than does our origin in matter. Perhaps this primate rising from the dust of the Earth, on becoming so remarkably spiritually informed, still bears the image of God.