Opus 2025-422: The Wall

I was sitting speculating on the place of additives and preservatives in our food and how the gurus of health are telling us that we need to avoid them or we will die.  OK, that may be a little too dramatic, but you know the things you’re hearing.  We’re used to science going back and forth on whether eggs are good for you, whether coffee will stunt your growth, whether vitamin D will cause Alzheimer’s and other exciting theories.  Most of them are pretty much groundless and are pushed for a commercial reward.

But I was wondering if when God created man and develop the immune system that we have if there isn’t a residual way of dealing with these additives that is hidden below the surface, waiting to come out.  Buried deep in the sections of DNA previously thought of as junk there might be an enzyme that will use an unpronounceable additive to cure cancer.

I think I’ve written about that before, but that took me to another thought.  When you look at the controversy between evolution and creation and consider the way in which scientist who are believers have been trying to hide behind the concept of design in the universe, I wonder if this is a wall that science is starting to run into that they will not be able to get beyond until they open their minds to reality.

When doing research on the Big Bang theory for a sermon on Genesis 1:1, it became clear that this theory was resisted by scientist mainly because it seemed to indicate a designer, a prime mover, the existence of God.  Several are on record as saying that’s why they resisted it.  There are other instances where the theoretically objective field of science has been held back because the scientist didn’t want to embrace ideas that might point toward a supreme being.

So I wonder if an areas in biology and physics the scholars are going to have to run into reality before they can move beyond the wall.  Are there concepts that they cannot approach unless they are open to all possibilities?

My memory goes back to a science fiction story I read years ago in which someone was in a jail cell demanding to be let out.  He kept throwing himself against the door.  It would not give.  He literally rattled his cage.  No matter how hard he pushed the door wouldn’t open.  The story went on, but the climax was when someone came and told him he could leave anytime he wanted to and they simply pushed the gate open and walked in because it wasn’t really locked.  The problem was it just opened one way and the story ends with the prisoner again, throwing himself against the door and refusing to pull.

What kind of doors that are standing ready to be opened is science ignoring because of the potential, not the proof, but the potential, that it might indicate there is design in the universe?

The science is settled.  So is the Titanic and its not going anywhere. 

homo unius libri