Already Answered Science Questions - take 1
World Magazine (can't find the link on their website) alerted me to a special feature in Science magazine upon their 125th anniversary. They've constructed a list of the top 125 questions left unanswered by science. Even just the top 25 are a field day for this former scientist turned pastor.
Expect a few posts along these lines as I consider a few of the supposedly unanswered questions which Science can't yet answer but God already has in His Word.
The 2nd question in top 25 list is, "What is the biological basis of consciousness?" They can keep asking this question and seeking an answer but they won't find it. As long as science maintains materialism as its idol and version of the lie (see Romans 1:25, New King James Version), it will be unable to explain human consciousness.
Human consciousness is of course mediated through a body while on this earth but is not dependent upon a body. In Revelation 6:9 we read that the souls of the martyrs cry out for vengeance. Though deprived of their bodies, they are utterly conscious especially that their blood has not yet been avenged.
Try as they may as long as science refuses the fact that man is a psychosomatic (soul & body) whole, they will be unable to answer some questions. It strikes me funny that an industry which happily relies upon non-material entities like laws of logic refuses that man could be made up of a material aspect and an immaterial aspect.
posted by Matthew Bohling @ 3:55 PM
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One aspect of our conscious lives is what we refer to as "intentionality." Intentionality are our thoughts about something. Or, our thoughts for something. So, I think about my son. I hope for a resurrected body, etc.
Now, given materialist dogma, what sense does it make to say that a bit of matter (say, one of my neurons) is about, of, or for, another bit of matter, say, a rock?
All one needs to do is take a brief trip through the halls of history's famous atheistic and evolutioniary philosophers and scientists:
"With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?" -Charles Darwin
"The idea that one species of organism is, unlike all the others, oriented not just toward its own increated prosperity but toward Truth, is as un-Darwinian as the idea that every human being has a built-in moral compass--a conscience that swings free of both social history and individual luck." (Richard Rorty, "Untruth and Consequences," The New Republic, July 31, 1995, pp. 32-36.)
"A revised and modernized materialism concludes from all this that human thought and feeling is the product of a series of unthinking and unfeeling processes originated in the big bang." (Richard C. Vitzthum, "Materialism: An Afiirmative History and Definition," Prometheus Books, 1995, pp.218-219,)
"Materialism should no longer wink at such nonsense but insist that the foundations of all human thought and feeling are grossly irrational." ( Richard C Vitzthum, "Materialism: An Afiirmative History and Definition," Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 220.)
"C.Loyed Morgan...labeling his theory emergenist evolution..argued that...[this is]'the outspring of something that has hitherto not been in being.'" (Richard C Vitzthum, "Materialism: An Afiirmative History and Definition," Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 131) (Brief comment: think about how they laugh at us for creation ex nihilo.)
"Even after abandoning logical atomism, Russell remained an enthusiastic pluralist; in 1931 he wrote that the proposition that the world is a unity, 'the most fundamental of my intellectual beliefs is that this is rubbish. I think the universe is all spots and jumps, without unity, without continuity, without coherence or orderliness or any of the other properties that governess love.'" ("The Scientific Outlook," New York, 1931, p.98. Cited in, "The Encyclopedia of Philosophy," edited by Paul Edwards, 1967, volume 5, p.364).
"Boiled down to its essentials, a nervous system that enables the organism to succeed in...feeding, fleeing, fighting, and reproducing. The principle [sic] chore of nervous systems is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organism may survive. Improvements in their sensorimotor control confer an evolutionary advantage: a fancier style of representing is advantageous so long as it is geared to the organism's way of life and enhances the organism's chances for survival. Truth, whatever that is, takes the hindmost." (Praticia Churchland, "Epistemology in the Age of Neuroscience," Journal of Philosophy 84 (October 1987): 548. Cited in, "C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea," Victor Reppert, IVP, 2002, pp. 76-77).
"...we shall be obliged to admit that there are some truths about the world which we can know independently of experience; even though we cannot conceivably observe that all objects have them. And we shall have to accept it as a mysterious inexplicable fact that our thought has this power to reveal to us authoritatively the nature of objects that we have never observed" (A. J. Ayer, "Language, Truth and Logic, 2nd edition, 1936; New Yourk: Dover, n.d., p.73).
"the process must be slow which commends the hypothesis of natural evolution to the public mind. For what are the core and essence of this hypothesis? Strip it bare, and you stand face to face with the notion, that the human mind itself - emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenomena - were once latent in a fiery cloud. Surely the mere statement of such a notion is more than a refutation.... Surely these notions represent an absurdity too monstrous to be entertained by any sane mind.... These evolution notions are absurd, monstrous...." (John Tyndall, "Althenaeum," September 24, 1870, p. 409.)
Now Hear Jehovah, this is not so ammusing.
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 7:22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;
Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
Proverbs 13:16 Every prudent man worketh with knowledge; But a fool flaunteth his folly.
Ecclesiastes 10:3 Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.
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