Season 3 Podcast 170 Some Random Thoughts Addiction Pt II
Some Random Thoughts on Addiction Part II
As a precursor to this podcast, let me refer you to Season 3 Podcast 157, ‘Some Random Thoughts on Addiction Pt I”. In Podcast 157, the Three Theological Virtues—Faith, Hope, & Charity—were presented as the spiritual foundation for anyone trying to overcome addictions. As you listen to this podcast, please remember that they are prefaced by the Three Theological Virtues.
Unlike its predecessor, Podcast 157, which suggests that overcoming addictions is first spiritual and then temporal, this podcast is more analytical than practical. It is an attempt to understand the driving forces behind the human mind. Science studies the brain with the same diligence that they study the oceans and outer space. Still the brain is unchartered territory. It does not give up its secrets easily.
Science is ingenious, a fact that is more evident every day. We have computers, the Hubble Telescope, space stations. We have put man on the moon and probed the surface of Mars. The search for knowledge drives science. Science is searching for a unified theory of the four forces of nature: strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity. They call it The Holy Grail of Physics. Science has unified the first three forces but the great problem that eludes science is how matter clumped together in large enough fields for gravity to form suns, moons, stars, and galaxies. I have no doubt that they will eventually find it as it relates to temporal law. That is the greatest genius of science and its greatest limitation.
It is extremely important that we as Christians appreciate the strength of science. We need science; however, it is equally important that we understand the limitations of science. Science may unify the four forces of nature, but science will never discover the unified theory of everything by confining themselves to the laws of nature. Only by accepting intelligent design can they find the unified theory of everything for it can only be explained through the power of God.
By denying the spiritual world, it is fruitless for science to try to discover the origins of life, the origins of man, or the meaning of existence. Theoretical science has turned the cosmos into Disney World, filled with fantasy. Their conclusions of an accidental universe, of chance, coincidence, accident, or serendipity of circumstances have created an Alice in Wonderland World. They are so caught up in the structure of their logic that they have blinded themselves to the fact that their foundation is built upon sand. Their fundamental premises are false, making their conclusions meaningless.
Their fundamental premises are that there is no God, no intelligent design, no purpose, no absolutes, no immortality and eternal life, and no soul. On the one hand science needs to stick to temporal law. They are not equipped to discover the secrets of spiritual law. The scientific method works beautifully in the temporal paradigm where accurate prediction is possible.
All things are governed by law. Law does not allow uncertainty, or it ceases to be law. That is why they can find a unified theory of the temporal forces of nature if they keep searching. Practical science stays on track with the scientific method by necessity. Failure quickly corrects their course.
Theoretical science has abandoned the scientific method. That is how they teach that something can come from nothing though laws doesn’t allow it; how they teach an accidental universe when law doesn’t allow it, how they teach that life begins by accident when law doesn’t allow it, how the Goldilocks Zone is created by accident when law doesn’t allow it. Theoretical science has effectively turned its back on the universal truth that something can never come from nothing. If even one law is broken, all laws are broken. Life is not a game of Jenga.
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