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Can Science Save Your Soul?
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 11:1-91 “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 EveDecember 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?
Can Science Save Your Soul?
Genesis 11