"intelligence comes from the brain." this is a textbook example of the reductionist fallacy. while its true that the brain is a physical organ involved in processing information, this doesnt explain how intelligence works or why our cognitive faculties are reliable in the first place. just because intelligence appears to emerge from the brain doesn't explain the logical structure of intelligence or knowledgewhy do we trust our mental faculties to understand and reason about the world? brains, like everything else in a purely materialistic worldview, are ultimately a product of random evolutionary processes. but if everything is random and purely material, how do we justify the objective, invariant laws of logic that underpin intelligence itself? for example, how does evolution select for the ability to reason logically or discern objective truths, when the process is concerned only with survival and reproduction, not truth? this is the epistemic dilemma of atheism: it cannot account for why we can trust the conclusions of our brain, which in an atheistic worldview is just a highly evolved organ designed to help us survive.
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