Can Science Save Your Soul? Genesis 11

The Wonders of Science! The battle to defeat Ebola!

Epidemiologist Lina Moses and Physician John Schieffelin traveled to Kenema Government Hospital, Sierra Leone

The Wonders of Science! Cutting Edge Advancements!

The Cutting Edge “At our finest universities and hospitals, doctors and scientists are exploring treatments that trickle past the traditional upkeep of the dumb fleshy machine…

…and edge closer to tinkering with the sacred orb of the self. Morbidly obese patients, for example, can now elect to partake in clinical trials that administer deep brain stimulation…

…or a series of small electrical shocks to specific areas of the brain, to curb their appetites. And the pioneers of the nascent field of bioelectronic medicine are already testing…

…small devices, implanted on patients’ nerves, to override the brain’s orders and cure, with some luck, anything from rheumatoid arthritis to chronic depression. These are momentous…

…achievements, but they raise a host of ethical questions. If a chip, say, could monitor and counteract the deleterious effects of our vices, might we still speak of free-will…

…the same way we have for millennia? If a smart monitoring system, lodged somewhere in our nervous system, could spring to action whenever our cholesterol levels spike past the…

…permissible, say, what’s to stop us from indulging in that second or third Big Mac, knowing that our nano centurions will step in and reverse the worst of it? Why, if watched over by…

…machines of loving grace, would we ever choose to be held accountable for our actions?” Liel Leibovitz, Can Science Save Our Souls?, Tablet

The Dilemma The writings of Michael Crichton

“Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.” Michael Crichton

Genesis 11:1-9 1 “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar…

…and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said,

…“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord…

…came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;

…now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

…8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there…

…the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.”

Can Science Explain the Soul? The ‘Brokenness’ & ‘Falleness’ of Mankind

Can Science Explain the Soul? The Need for Outward Accountability & Inward Ethics

Can Science Save Your Soul? The Essential Need of Forgiveness, Hope & Redemption

Can Science Save Your Soul? Christmas Eve December 24, 1914

“But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory, I love only that which they defend.” Faramir, the Captain of Gondor in The Lord of the Rings

“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure…

…whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy— meditate on these things.” Philippians 4:8

Can Science Save Your Soul? Genesis 11