Why God’s future depends on science

Which will be more important in shaping your future, science or spirituality? For any number of people this sounds like an empty question. Science has shaped our age; religion is a declining force in the West, as it has been for decades. A clock could be placed behind every pulpit ticking off the thousands of people who leave organized faith behind every hour of the day. But there is a growing movement that is repairing the rift between science and religion. It has nothing to do with the noisy band of atheists who continue to foment discord between faith and reason. Rather, science has reached a point where certain basic mysteries cannot be solved without resorting to the one thing that spirituality has always specialized in: consciousness. (more…)

How Men Can Be Wise About Women (Part 2)

Everyone would agree that the relationship between men and women is all-important, not just in daily life but to the well-being of a society. In my first post I raised the troubling wedge that is being driven between the two sexes. My focus was on scientific fads — almost totally unsupported by experimental data — for assigning gender differences to genes and brain activity. On the technical side we are led to believe that behavior is determined by automatic processes, largely unconscious, that make us who we are. This kind of determinism is very bad thinking. It robs us of free choice, but just as importantly, it leads to the belief that men are very different from women, with some kind of deterministic mechanism as the cause.

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Embracing Uncertainty or Recklessness

I recently met a man in a bar. After a very short introduction, we became close friends. He is many years younger than I am and is not stable in his life. He does not have a job or a car or even a permanent home. I think he is a very nice person and I enjoyed spending time with him, but my instincts tell me he would be a big risk for me. I have two children, a brand new house and many things I have worked very hard to get.

According to the law of detachment, I am supposed to embrace uncertainty. This man tells me he has many plans for his future, yet I am skeptical to believe in his intentions. So all my instincts are telling me not to pursue a relationship with him. Yet, I wonder if there is a reason we were drawn together that night. Am I supposed to help him? Am I supposed to ignore the risks I could be putting myself and my children in with the hopes he could turn out to be the man I am looking for? I actually have a past record of relationships with men who needed a helping hand. Neither of those worked out well for me. If I do not look to my past experiences to make this choice, then I may be doomed to keep repeating it. How do I discern between letting go of the past influences in my life and making a wiser choice?