I attempt to answer

by Anthony DeLucchi

Devon,

I attempt to answer the things I understand in as few words as possible. Fair enough I am not a scholar, so enlighten me. I am accused of using God as a hammer to hamfistedly clobber all scientific theory; do not the voices of science use scientific-gabble to ridicule the bible? To who do they speak? Themselves?

Why would the man in the street understand the jargon of the scholar? I am no scientific scholar, nor do I pretend to be. I am no biblical scholar nor do I attempt to be, but having said this I will admit I can read and in reading I find it quite natural to conclude certain discrepancies in both science and in theological argument. I find science a fascinating journey of discovery, not of conclusion, and this is where it annoys me with scientific followers, not so much the scholar. The scholar is always discovering, it is his acolytes who conclude. Many questions are raised none are asked, the earth questions us, she does not ask us anything. We jump to conclusions, skip bases and think we are home free. Forgive the baseball analogy. In science we should just follow what it shows us.

The bible on the other hand gives us answers to questions we do not know how to ask. I always was bemused at school when asked to study for an exam and been told to study the answers, and I always wondered how could I study the answers if I do not know the questions. That aside, the Bible is as I have said a book of answers. Where do we come from is not answered, but who made us. Where are we going is answered, actually we are shown both directions we are taking.

Do not confuse science and your life, your life may be a consequence of science, but science is not your life. Life is a mystery which for me science fails to unravel. I am concerned about myself and how I fill my role as a living entity here in this material world. Am I, an intelligent being of accident or am I here to fulfill a purpose which is not of my making, of which, willing or unwilling, become part of, or have always been part of? These are my questions, not the questions of Darwin or some bright spark with the pens in his pocket. Now no book of science answers these questions for me, they might show me of what I am made of, what might have been my origin, so does the bible, science cannot refute that I am the dust, the stuff of this planet. I understand the concept of time, the measurement of all things. We are imprisoned by time. But science gives me no soul, and this, Devon, is the most important difference of it all, this soul-thing, this inner consciousness, this knowledge is the most disturbing more so than all the answers of the scientific universe.

The follower of science will mock my God, he will dispute the existence of Jesus, he will find contradiction in every phrase in the book of Genesis but he cannot deny my knowledge of my soul, the unexplained reactions of myself while I rest and dream. The ability to interpret the energies of others around me, the voices of many who have passed. Personally I steer clear of the occult, it is difficult trying to follow the living world let alone the supernatural. Yes science has its merits and it explains much of what we might have thought to be magic, it might describe the shadow of this world but it does not come near to answering the question of who casts that shadow.