Catholic and Enjoying It!
Expert: Brain unable to understand existence of God
I eagerly await the headline “Expert: Brain unable to understand how to get a date” or “Expert: Brain unable to understand why everybody thinks my highwater pants are funny” or “Expert: Brain unable to understand what people see in poetry when calculus is so much more rational” or “Expert: Brain unable to relate to ordinary people with normal emotional and affective life”.
Seriously, just because you are a scientist does not confer on you some sort of Master Race status. Just the other day, the press was taking the silly opinion of Stephen Hawking with grave seriousness: we have to get off the earth or we’re all gonna die!
Forget that it would be easier to re-create New York City in Antarctica than it would be to create even a small workable village on Mars or the Moon. Forget that we are nowhere near light-speed travel and that even if we achieve it, the nearest star (which may not have any habitable planets) is 4 light years away (or 50,000 years at present speeds). We should all take Stephen Hawking seriously because he has a massive amount of knowledge about an incredibly narrow band of specialized technical knowledge.
It’s like asking your expert plumber for advice about your finances and your love life. As an advisor on these matters, he will make a great plumber. A brain expert talking about God is a brain expert talking about *God*. Not surprisingly, his brain is no more able to comprehend the Infinite and Ineffable One than your brain. This is news?
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In