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