The following comment was in response to my article “Trying to Account for the Invisible in the Atheist World”:

“Atheists claim that only physical things exist.” Straw man argument. You set up a bad foundation so you can tear it down. And if morality in your argument can’t come from atheists, then explain the Christian worldview of the morality of slavery in the Bible.

Claiming that only “physical things” exist is not my argument; it’s what atheists claim. The first assumption of science, as stated by Glenn Borchardt in his book The Ten Assumptions of Science, is materialism. Since the mind as distinct from the brain is by definition non