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    Challenges→The Neo-Epicurean materialist account cannot explain human intellect and will.

    Matter cannot create the spirit that is operative in human actions of intellect and will.

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    God’s existence can be known through a rational scrutiny of the cosmos, which ultimately reveals itself to be the handiwork of a supreme being. The Neo-Epicurean argument that the cosmos’s existence and design can be explained through the random play of physical atoms is untenable, since purely physical substances cannot create the elaborate laws which govern the universe. Moreover, matter cannot create the spirit which is obviously operative in human actions of intellect and will.

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