Atheism the unscientific belief (part one, two, and three)

[Angrboda]

Here's the thing. When I move my arm, nerves connected to my muscle fire causing the muscles to contract. That nerve is connected to another nerve and so on up into the brain itself. If the consciousness which causes my arm to move is immaterial, someplace in the brain it has to connect up to the very material nerves. At that point there will be nerves magically firing without any material cause evident. So your claim that the consciousness which moves the arm is non-material amounts to a claim that someplace in the brain, a literal miracle is occurring: nerves firing without any apparent input. Unless you've got evidence of that, you've got nothing. Parsimony says that if the material brain is sufficient for the creation of mind - and it appears it is - there's no reason to add speculative "other forces" that we have no evidence of.