Swinburne accepts darwinian macroevolution in his statement, “men evolved from apes, and apes from more primitive ANIMALS, AND THE PRIMITIVE ANIMALS EVOLVED FROM THE SOUP OF INANIMATE ATOMS WHICH CONSOLIDATED TO FORM THE EARTH SOME FOUR THOUSAND MILLION YEARS AGO.” HE DOES HAVE SIGNIFICANT AND RELEVANT PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HUMAN SOUL AND BODY TO WHICH I HAVE BEEN REFERRING IN MY BLOG EXCERPTS. I CONTINUE WITH THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS:
“I HAVE BEEN ARGUING THAT THERE ARE MENTAL EVENTS OF VARIOUS KINDS - SENSATIONS, THOUGHTS, PURPOSINGS, DESIRES, and beliefs - and that these interact [Italics added] with brain-events, which are physical events. . . . a man’s soul is that to which the (pure) mental properties of a man belong.”