Ken Samples addressed the problem of consciousness, noting that “scholars in fields concerned with consciousness must contend with the relationship between consciousness and the brain (known as the mind-body problem). While recognizing the profound complexity of the issue, naturalists have long proposed that it has a natural explanation. Secular neuroscientists believe physical events (brain) cause mental events (mind). According to this widely held view, consciousness is merely a byproduct of the brain (called epiphenomenalism). It is believed that the mind emerged as a caused property of the brain once the brain reached a certain level of evolutionary complexity.” Samples continues to cite comments by Thomas Nagel, philosopher of mind, who “concludes that Darwinian materialism has failed as a comprehensive scientific explanation for conscious reality. Nagel rejects both reductionist and emergent physical explanations for consciousness, stating that ‘consciousness is the most conspicuous obstacle to a comprehensive naturalism that relies only on the resources of physical science.’” I conclude this post with Samples’ comments, “Christian theism and the existence of the biblical God provide a rational explanation for the presence of conscious beings in the universe. Christian philosopher Gregory Ganssle offers a succinct explanation: ‘If God exists, then the primary thing that exists is itself a conscious mind of unlimited power and intellect. This mind has its own first-person perspective, and it can think about things. The notion that such a mind, if it creates anything, would create other conscious minds that have their own first-person perspectives and can think about things is not a great mystery.’ . . . It is more reasonable to conclude that the human mind, personhood, reason, and self-awareness ultimately stem from a source (the mind of God) that possesses all these incredible qualities exponentially.”