1. Has Science Discovered Its Soul?

In this blog, we will track the trends in scientific discovery of G-d, the soul, and the significance of human life. If this doesn’t sound very scientific, that’s only because there’s so much going on in the world, that many people are simply unaware of the new discoveries and theories and their implications.

The fact is that science is in the midst of a spirituality revolution every bit as significant as the renaissance, the industrial revolution and the information age. The new developments touch not only a few disciplines but literally the entire spectrum of scientific endeavor, from astronomy to zoology and from psychology to physics.

These evolving trends in science are of two types: Discoveries that challenge commonly held anti- religious notions, and those that validate ideas previously thought to be exclusively religious or mystical.

Among the antiquated beliefs that still pass for science among the uninformed are the following, all dysfunctional relics of 19th Century thinking:

• The laws of nature explain natural phenomena;
• All meaningful questions have rational answers;
• The notions of Creator and soul are irrelevant to science;
• Material realism and causal determinism are upheld by science;
• Scientific objectivity is achievable in principle;
• The world and the cosmos must have existed for billions of years;
• The diversity of life has arisen by chance through mutation and natural selection;
• Planetary motion is necessarily heliocentric and not geocentric;
• Small local actions are insignificant in the grand scheme of things;
• Thoughts and feelings have no direct effect beyond the mind;
• Physical healing comes about only through physical means.

Instead of all this, current scientific wisdom includes new and numerous, unrefuted, peer-reviewed, published scientific studies that compel even secular researchers to draw such “mystical” and “unscientific” conclusions as:

• Laws of nature cannot explain anything;
• All logical systems are either inconsistent or incomplete;
• There exists an omniscient Creator;
• Creatio ex nihilo is ubiquitous and continuous;
• Man has a soul;
• Man has free will;
• Physical reality depends on the Creator’s dynamic relationship with man;
• Cosmology and Geology allow for a young world;
• Biblical Creation is no less plausible than Darwinian evolution of species;
• Geocentrism is as valid as heliocentrism;
• Small local actions can have immediate, far reaching and wide ranging impacts;
• Thoughts and feelings can impact external physical systems directly;
• Faith and prayer actually heal.

“This is new?” you might ask. Well yes and no. It’s new to science, but old to traditional faith. But the synergy works both ways because faith is enhanced by science as well. In future posts, we will document all these claims and provide an explanation for why all this is happening specifically now.