The belief that what science can’t explain doesn’t need explaining is blind and blinding

Science has explained many mysteries about material nature. And it will explain more. Still because it focuses on matter, it can’t explain the non-material.

However, fanatical materialists misappropriate the power and prestige of science for propagating materialism. They argue that the non-material which science can’t explain doesn’t need explaining because it doesn’t matter. But this is not an argument – it is an article of faith, a belief that is blind and blinding.

Let’s see how:

Blind: Just as the visible world continues to exist and matter even if the blind can’t see it, so do non-material issues continue to exist and matter despite the materialists’ blindness to them. The most critical materially unanswerable questions pertain to identity and purpose.

Identity: Who am I? Where does my sense of selfhood come from? How can the insentient matter that comprises my body and brain produce something that experiences matter – me?

Purpose: What is the purpose of my existence? What is the point of the fabulous bodily machinery with its many brilliant techniques for survival – a subject fascinating for science – if life has no end better than annihilation at death?

Blinding: The belief in the irrelevance of the non-material drags its believers deeper into the degradation wrought by an unfettered materialistic lifestyle. The Bhagavad-gita (16.08) outlines how those who reject life’s spiritual dimension descend into carnality. The next verse (16.09) delineates their further degeneration into depravity that ruins the world.

The Gita’s prophetic warning is etched in recent history through the blood of millions. The militantly anti-spiritual communism that ruled USSR and China killed seven times more people than both the World Wars combined.

Thankfully, Gita wisdom stands ready to take the intelligent beyond irrational materialism by providing rational and verifiable answers to life’s fundamental questions.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16 Text 09

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