| I think it is interesting how we as American Christians tend to think that Science is the complete study of "how things work". Especially when it comes to medical science, we tend to (at least in my observation) categorize the flesh as explainable by science alone, and then conversely we classify the Bible as simply the science of the spiritual. This sort of mental block between the things of the flesh (this world) and the things of the spirit (NOT this world) hinders our understanding of just how much Science does in fact explain.
Secular knowledge definitely teaches that studies such as Psychology and Biology completely explain what we need to know about ourselves. But when these secular truths are put into examination by light of even a basic understanding of Holy Scripture, it is obvious that there are holes in the "completeness" of the fields of science, which can only be filled by the Word.
Because of this, I am led to believe that even if human scientific understanding were at its utmost highpoint we would never be able to perfectly replicate a human being, obviously we would be missing a soul. And at this point in our understanding, we do not know how much the spirit/flesh interaction defines who we are. How much do chemicals determine our personality, and how much does the soul? Without our fleshy vessels what are we? Simply a spirit without a personality? Will science ever reach the point where it can be God, where it can create? I know it will not.
"18while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:18 NASB
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Stephen
Faith Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC)
Lorton, VA
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; [4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. - 2 Timothy 4:3-4 |