dr. egnor expands on his comments about the human soul in chapter seven, and i include several:
“in the material world, energy is neither created nor destroyed. but it is often transformed from one state to another. in fact, nothing in this universe simply dissipates; it is always transformed. the immaterial world is similar. an immaterial reality like the human soul may be transformed into a different reality, but it cannot be simply annihilated. . . . apart from physical [interactive] behavior [with the neural synaptic networks of the brain] the soul does not actually have a location. . . . we have seen from neuroscience that the immaterial aspect of the human soul is a unity. it has no parts, so it cannot be split or multiplied. . . . but the soul is not composed, therefore not decomposable. it could die only by being annihilated as a whole. but this would be contrary to a basic law of the universe: that nothing simply and absolutely vanishes, just as nothing simply pops into existence with no cause. . . . the fact that abstract thought has no physical place and cannot be split is consistent with the human soul having some immaterial powers. . . . the mind appears to have an immaterial source, and again, we have no reason to think that such a source is mortal by nature.”
dr. egnor has identified above a cause for entities within the universe. we know from scripture that there is a first cause, the creator, god. that the mind of humans has an immaterial source, ultimately that source is god, who is eternal.