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In Consciousness and the Existence of God, J.P. Moreland argues that the existence of finite, irreducible consciousness (or its regular, law-like correlation with physical states) provides evidence for the existence of God. Moreover, he analyzes and criticizes the top representative of rival approaches to explaining the origin of consciousness, including John SearleOCOs contingent correlation, Timothy OOCOConnorOCOs emergent necessitation, Colin McGinnOCOs mysterian OCyOCynaturalism, OCOOCO David SkrbinaOCOs panpsychism and Philip ClaytonOCOs pluralistic emergentist monism. Moreland concludes that these approaches should be rejected in favor of what he calls OCyOCythe Argument from Consciousness.OCOOCO"