It has been verified, by countless observations. You're just a dishonest Christian with a keyboard. You know how they observed it? They measured it with machines. They are the ones who know about their **** because it's there job, not the great dumb animal that is the christian propaganda machine. Your brain is all kinds of angry, confused and sad. Try meditation it might unconfuse you and make you see the light.
Numerous philosophers of science have tried to explain why the scientific-revolution occurred during a Christian milieu rather than a Chinese or some other environment? They came to numerous conclusions to include the idea that Christians put God outside of the world such that the world is more like a machine than a pantheistic-being (ala the non Judeo/Christian metaphysics). As a machine (functioning like any other machine) the world has gears and mechanisms and follows laws some of which can be tweaked, and some not so much.
Once God and the world were thought to functioned in a binary manner, so too the human body became, in relationship to the soul, what the world is to God: a mere machine and not the heart and soul of reality. Such that for Christianity, sound science requires that the scientist accepts the undeniable fact that reality isn't subsumed, nor even faithfully presented, in human perception. The world is nothing like what a human is made to perceive once the organs of his body have developed their contrived inner environment.
Thinking in this way made the early Christian scientists come to realize that those cultures and peoples who bought into the human body as a nearly diaphanous veil just barely separating reality from human perception (such that pleasure, for instance, is one of the most desirable possessions of the healthy human) tended to be (the naturalist or aboriginal peoples were) the lowest on the totem pole so far as scientific and intellectual reasoning were concerned.
Which is to say that the Christian scientists came to see that pleasure, particularly the summum bonum of pleasure, sex, more often led cultures and societies that sought it out heartily to implode or become subject to those cultures and societies that put limits on the pursuit of pleasure be it sex or drugs.
In every way, the Christian societies and cultures began to see that what the body wants, desires, and makes appear to be healthy and good, is nothing of the sort. The body, like the world, is a liar. The sun is not the same size as the moon, the earth is not flat, and neither this world, nor this human body, is the summum bonum of truth and fidelity: the Bible is. Trying to bring some of these Judeo/Christian truths into a materialistic, or modern aboriginal framework, the modern aborigine Richard Dawkins says:
It is the glory of the human cerebral cortex that it -----unique among all animals and unprecedented in all geological time ---has the power to defy the dictates of the selfish genes. We can enjoy sex without procreation. We can devote our lives to philosophy, mathematics, poetry, astrophysics, music, geology, or the warmth of human love, in defiance of the old [reptile] brain's genetic urging that these are a waste of time ---time that "should" be spent fighting rivals and pursuing multiple sexual partners: "As I see it, we have a profound choice to make. It is a choice between favoring the old brain or favoring the new brain. More specifically, do we want our future to be driven by the processes that got us here, namely, natural selection, competition, and the drive of the selfish genes? Or, do we want our future to be driven by intelligence and its desire to understand the world?"
Richard Dawkins, introducing Jeff Hawkins, One Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (bracket mine, based on earlier comment in intro. Last quotation is Dawkins quoting Hawkins).
Anyone with a modicum of honesty can see that what Dawkins presents as a new understanding for atheistic scientists is the heart and soul of what practicing Jews and Christians have been saying for thousands of years. The Torah and the Gospels are the instigators of doubt concerning the reality of the world as perceived. The Torah and the Gospels are the instigators of doubt concerning the veracity of the human body and its means of perception. That modern aborigines like Dawkins and Daniel Dennett are just now, near the end of this epoch of humanity, trying to climb on board the Judeo/Christian golden parachute, is as laughable as when, in the days of Noah, those who laughed him to scorn were drowning to death clinging to the barnacles and bark of the Ark they found so silly just days before.
These are the end days. Atheists and agnostics scientists will soon be seen clining to strings and things dangling from the golden parachute as they try to escape the fiery conflagration taking place beneath the golden parachute filled to the brim with Jews and Christians. What's laughable now will soon be causing the laughers to be crying and gnashing their teeth trying to gain salvation through the reality they fought against tooth and nail a fortnight ago.
John
