|
Nonphysical.org
If this Makes Sense to You, Please Send the Link to Someone Who May Be Interested! |
|
|
|
The Issues
|
Dedicated to a Revolution in Biological Theory The Issue: What is Life?
Does a vast dimension of conscious intelligence create plants and animals? Is the human mind part of this mysterious nonphysical dimension? To these possibilities, many in the scientific community would answer with a resounding "No!" "It's just superstitious speculation," they proclaim. Eminent biologist assert that life and the mind are simply complex chemical process organized by the forces of the nonliving world (1). Scientists tell us that DNA is the "design and operating system of life." Popular science magazines assert that consciousness is created by the operation of the brain. Certainly life and the mind are closely tied to the structures of matter. An animal's size, shape, and characteristics are tightly linked to its genetic structure. Changes in the brain's biochemistry affect the operation of the mind. The material orientation provides an excellent framework for experimental investigation and has led to many valuable medical discoveries. Nevertheless, this patchwork of observations should not be confused with an actual explanation for the overall phenomena of life. Science cannot provide a mechanism, however fanciful, by which the molecular substance of DNA rigidly directs the motion of trillions upon trillions of molecules to organize as a cell, organ or body. Scientists attempt to explain this mystery with the vague, descriptive language of the "theory of emergence." However, it is impossible to put pen to paper to diagram why life's molecular motions remain ever-organized and do not degenerate into the random thermal motion that occurs in the nonliving world (2). All in all, conventional science scores an "F" for a total failure to provide an actual mechanism by which the known properties of matter create the dynamics of life. The failure begins with the mystery of what rigidly directs a cell's molecules into the chronologically organized dance of living physiology as concluded by Noble Prize Physicist, Erwin Schrodinger, in his famous book, "What is Life?" (2). And the failure extends into science's inability to provide a conceptual models for the conscious mind's chronological organization of memory or an animal's instinctive behaviors such as a spider's construction of its web. In defense of science's purely material theory of life, many protest that life is so complex we cannot yet answer these fundamental questions. They express strong confidence that further scientific discovery will provide a purely material explanation for these mysteries and conclusively prove that life is not the mysterious action of God or other unacknowledged forces. Yet, this hopeful view of conventional science ignores the intractable limitations of current biological theory. Modern biology is a valuable set of observations. But these observations do not provide a coherent, conceptual mechanism to explain the organized dynamic of life, the mind, or memory. This fact needs to be clearly recognized. To sustain true objectivity, textbooks of the biological sciences should clearly identify these fundamental limitations. Moreover, just as physicists actively encourage debate of new theories to arrive at a unified theory of the Universe, so should biologists. A physicist would not ignore glaring evidence of an unexplained organizing force in the nonliving world. And in the spirit of true scientific objectivity, neither should biologists. When one closely examines the logical gaps in existing theory, it becomes apparent that no amount of research will ever provide mechanisms for the dynamic of life, the mind, or memory, within biology's existing material framework (3). It is time to acknowledge the evidence that a force, unacknowledged by conventional science, organizes the processes of life and the mind. In search of the truth, we should embrace the admonition of the father of modern science, the great skeptic, Rene Descartes, who reminded us, "Doubt all that can be doubted!" To find a cohesive, logically robust theory of life, we must squarely face the unknown and focus on the gaping holes within a purely material theory of life and the mind. In this spirit of Descartes, the new book, The Vital Dimension, by Carl Gunther, offers a new, comprehensive theory of life, the mind, and memory based on the theories of modern physics and scientific greats such as the Nobel Prize winners Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, Sir John Eccles, and Albert Einstein. The book both presents a full description of the intractable issues confronting modern biology and develops incontestable evidence that life is the design of conscious creation. References: (1) World Renowned, Harvard Biologist, Ernst Mayr. The Growth of Biological Thought. (2) The Nobel Prize Physicist and Father of Modern Chemistry, Erwin Schrodinger. What is Life? (3) The Nobel Prize Scientists, Werner Heisenberg, Sir John Eccles, and others.
|