One of the phrases that I keep hearing lately is "trust the science". And I'll comment to my wife and others that while I trust the science on many things science is always changing.
For example, the "save the planet" people weep over species that become extinct. And then act surprised when one of them walks out of the forest 20 or 30 years later. Trust the science; it said that they were extinct. But if there's another one and there's a whole group of them and there's a whole bunch of them that nobody had seen. "Extinct" means gone forever. It doesn't mean we just can't find them, it means gone forever never to come back. Words mean things. And so this sort of event undermines my trust in science.
I read an article recently that talked about at the quantum level atoms repel each other. And based on that scientists have concluded that we as humans can never really touch each other or objects because our atoms are repelling the other atoms. The article intrigued me because in quantum physics and that whole realm of science new things are being discovered all the time and nobody really understands it and there's all sorts of theories about. This makes it exciting to read about. And so this was cool and interesting at an intellectual level.
But then it struck me that if nothing can ever really touch then I can never really connect with another person. I stand alone and am separate from everything. I repel everything around me. And the whole undertone of the article shifted for me from a quantum physics intrigue feeling to I'm being separated from the herd and being singled out so that I no longer believe in God or in connection with others or any of that sort of stuff that makes our belief system stand tall.
It's scary! Because the devil will use anything to separate us from God. Even science! You're just a ball of energy. Science says that. Science also says that you're really only about 10% human and the rest of you is made up of bacteria and viruses and you're just a nasty vile thing. But God teaches that he loves us and desires us and created us in his image. We're wanted by him!
I guess that's why in the New Testament Paul talked about testing things that you ingest. We have to be careful what we let in our heads and then once they're in we have to be careful what we let them do and how they percolate, ferment, orhowever you ruminate on things.
The devil will do anything to separate us from God and from each other. Because divided we fall. Be careful!
