What I believe about chemicals and thoughts

All chemicals function according to the laws that govern their function. Chemicals are dependent upon and can react to outside conditions and forces but can never act for themselves. Chemicals can absorb, store, and transmit energy and information. Chemicals cannot: choose, decide, feel, be conscious, think, have morals, destroy themselves, like or not like something, organize themselves, regulate themselves, act for themselves, or know why things are the way they are. 

If poisons are absorbed into the system, the poisons will function according to the laws that govern their function (unless there is a divine intervention as promised in Mark 16:17-18). The mind (which also includes the central nervous system) does not determine how chemicals react. An acid will function like an acid. An enzyme will function like an enzyme. A poison will function like a poison. This is controlled by law. The mind can control (to some degree) how much of the chemical is absorbed by controlling (through the nerves) the function of the cells that absorb those chemicals. It can control (through the nerves acting upon the cells) the quantity of different chemicals produced in the body. But it has no control of how a chemical reacts. The reaction is governed by law. 

I do not believe that chemicals came from the big bang. I do not believe that chemicals can organize themselves through random processes. I do not believe that chemicals can destroy themselves. I do not believe that chemicals can regulate themselves. I do not believe that chemicals can organize themselves into a sufficient complexity as to create life (In other words, life is not the result of chemical complexity or action). I believe that life can only come from life (God). I do not believe that chemicals can organize themselves into a sufficient complexity as to create thought (In other words, thought is not the result of chemical complexity or chemical reactions). I do not believe that moral capacity is the result of chemical complexity (In other words, morality is not a capacity or result of chemical complexity or chemical reactions). 

I believe that our moral capacity is not a function of chemistry. Yes, we function with chemistry, and if the chemistry is absent, deranged, or damaged, we cannot function or we cannot function properly. But morality is not a result of chemistry. I do not believe that our thoughts create chemicals. I do not believe that our thoughts control how chemicals react. I believe that thoughts (through the structure of the central and peripheral nervous system) regulate the function of cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems within the body. I believe that thoughts can result in the increase or decrease of the activity of different cells, tissues, organs, or organ systems. I believe that thoughts can result in the starting, stopping, increasing, or decreasing of the production of certain chemicals in the body. By controlling the production of enzymes, acids, mucus, hormones, etc., the mind can control the functions of the body, just as God designed it should be. But how the enzymes, acids, mucus, hormones, etc. function is governed by natural laws, not by the mind. 

Mark Sandoval