Questions Science Cannot Answer

Robert Arvay at the American Thinker posits that there is a vital question that physical science can never answer. Of course, any thinking person knows this. Science can explain much that happens in the physical universe, but what came before? Science can not peer back before the big bang. This is not a knock on science. It's just a reality. Everything that man does has limits.

What is the only observable physical phenomenon that science cannot explain? It is perhaps the most important one of all.

Let's use an analogy. Suppose that the government were to commission a study about music. Suppose further that the study were restricted to answering a specific question: how does music arise from a musical instrument?

The study might begin by surveying a particular musical instrument — let us say the French horn. It would examine its shape, its parts, its constituent metals, and the acoustics involved in producing the music that emanates from it. How far would such a study get in its mission of answering the question? How does music arise from a musical instrument?

It would get nowhere, and for obvious reasons. Music does not arise from a musical instrument; the music is played upon it. In order for music to emanate from the instrument, one needs to account for the role of the musician, that of the composer, and even that of the listener. The simple answer to the question, then, is that there is more to music than the instrument.

Government and academia are struggling to answer a similar question about the brain: how does a conscious mind arise from the physical brain? Is it that there is more than only the brain, that produces conscious thought and experience — and even produces music?

The human animal is defferent from every other form of life on this planet. Oh, sure, we, like all life, we have DNA. And we share 98% of our DNA with our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. But it is not our physical being that makes us different. It is that God, our Creator, has breathed a spirit into us that makes us different.  That spirit is meant to bring us closer to Him.  Thus:

Our conscious awareness does not arise from the brain, but is rather the music of our spiritual nature flowing through our physical being.

In the formative years of the American Republic, there was little doubt that our rights come to us from "the Creator." It was said by one of the Founders, John Adams, that "our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

With the passage of time, however, this essential belief, that we are the creatures of a universal God, became gradually supplanted by the misconception that we are creatures of an exclusively physical universe, entirely controlled by it, and not accountable to any power higher than the government.

The rest is history, an increasingly chaotic one. Many of us are distressed as we observe our cherished nation descend into the depravities of corrupt government and the inevitable consequences thereof. The streets of many large cities are overrun by drug-addicted denizens. Illegal aliens receive government-funded social benefits that are denied to our wounded veterans of war. Criminals are protected from punishment by leftist prosecutors. The list is long and depressing.

But this is why I do not worry about AI taking over my life. The "masters of the universe" will never understand conscious thought.

I also do not know if the American experiment can be revived, or if it has already been lost. I worry about it for my grand children, but otherwise, it doesn't bother me much. People have existed in many places and many forms of government, but still had a relationship with the Trancendent. I take note that Esau was not the patriarch of Israel because he sold his birthright for a meal to Jacob, who because Israel. That showed what Esau considered important. If the Left wants this country so badly that they are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and burn it to the ground, that shows what they consider important, and it is not a right relationship with God. I still pray that God helps them see the light. But that is up to Him.