Season 5 Podcast 50 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 37, “Determinism vs Free Will: The Uncertainty Principle.”

A New Voice of Freedom

Season 5 Podcast 50 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 37, “Determinism vs Free Will: The Uncertainty Principle.”

In this podcast I would like to reveal a fundamental flaw in the logic of science. The flaw exists because science does not recognize the immortality of the soul, that fundamentally we have both a physical body and a spiritual body. The spirit was created first. The physical body was created second. The physical body is mortal. The spirit body is immortal. The physical body is created by God in the express image of our spirit. Our spirit is created in the express image of God. In the spirit resides our self-existing intelligence, our consciousness, our freewill, our life force, and our connection to God who is the Father of our spirits.

The reason science compares man to animal, man to machine, and man to robot is because they do not recognize what the apostle Peter refers to as ‘our divine nature.’ They see only a biological machine, an animal, and a robot. I distinguish man as animal, man as machine, and man as robot in the following way.

In describing man as animal, science does not distinguish us from any other biological creature whether that creature be a beetle, a bird, a dog, a monkey, or a rhinoceros as it relates to freewill.

In describing man as machine, science does not distinguish us from planets or moons or stars or any other natural sphere or object in time and space.

In describing man as robot, science does not distinguish us from other humanoid like creatures run by artificial intelligence which gives us the appearance of freewill.

Science has ingeniously revealed to us three alternate universes. One they call the Newtonian world, the world we experience daily. The second they call the world of Quantum Physics, the world of atoms and quarks and electrons. No one has ever seen an electron or a quark, yet science is able to make predictions in the subatomic realm with astonishing accuracy. The third perhaps could be referred to as the Einsteinian world, the world of space, time, and relativity. For convenience let us call the first the Macroscopic world, the second the Microscopic world, and the third the Telescopic world. All three universes act in perfect harmony demonstrating just how complex our universe is and how far science has advanced.

However, because science is limited to that which they can control in the lab, though their findings may be astonishing, their conclusions about reality are flawed and do not reflect the human experience.

In the human experience many witness the effects of faith, miracles, divine manifestations, answers to prayers, hope, love, visions, dreams, freewill, and God. That is an area the most sophisticated scientific tools and elaborate experiments of science can never reach. It is what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls the “dearest freshness deep down things.” The following poem by Mr. Hopkins is called God’s Grandeur.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil

Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;

There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;

And though the last lights off the black West went

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

One must experience Hopkins’ poem to know what it means.