There are Christians who believe the neo-Darwinian synthesis is correct [1] and atheists who don't [2][3].

[1] https://biologos.org/

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/What-Darwin-Wrong-Jerry-Fodor/dp/03126...

Wow. That's a lot of words.

How exactly does consciousness "emerge" from matter? Are there some kind of psychophysical bits that aren't currently accounted for in physics? Surely it's not merely epiphenomenal. How do intentions affect the physical world as seems to be happening when our minds move our bodies? What is the solution, here, to the mind-body problem?

I just finished reading Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos" which highlights some of the salient issues with reductionist explanations of consciousness, cognition, and value. I don't think these things are just a state of matter.

http://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-C...