TheBrotherMario - 12 January 2012 06:39 AM
JayD, scientists, especially in the last fifty years, have done a wonderful job looking deeper and deeper into physical and biological realities. And this research will, without a doubt, benefit us all and enlighten us all.
HOWEVER, scientists have NEVER gotten out from under the glaring discrepancies between these two realities into the bright light of discovering HOW their meeting first happened and WHY life is purposeful while the elements are not.
Are scientists closing in on WHERE this meeting first happened and WHEN life joined with the elements? Absolutely they are, for this is in the realm of science.
BUT, for scientists (and pedestrian intellects) to look at these discoveries, and then leap infinitely forward to grandiose claims that they POINT AWAY FROM a creator and a divine intellect, disqualifies them AS scientists, for they are willfully misreading the data and ignoring their shortcomings.
Scientists are climbing up a ladder of secondary causes and limited data, therefore (just as there is no silly “multi-universe”) they will never reach a top rung that will stand upon and peer over into a complete understanding and knowledge of reality. This is because such knowledge and understanding goes beyond mathematics into purpose, and beyond data into divinity; and it is the thinkers who combine intellectual reasoning with spiritual insight who have the tallest ladder.
The best of us, who are rarely found, learn from both Hawking AND Augustine. The worst of us, who are myriad, learn from only what supports their personal opinions.
Science, in all its wondrous discoveries and blatant limitations, supports and confirms the existence of a divine intellect and, more importantly, the revelation of a divine personality—a divine personality that the world has named “God”.
This is a statement of FAITH rather than FACT. The only problem with it is that it ties FAITH into claims about what sort of results can be obtained from scientific investigation which is pretty weak straw to hang on to.
So, Mario: Suppose that tomorrow a theory of the origins of life from inorganic matter was published and this theory was confirmed by the creation of living matter in the laboratory. What would happen to your beliefs then? You would have to either deny scientific FACT, or reject your claims of FAITH. (Unless, of course, you took the bull by the horns and leapt into metaphorical interpretation.)
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