Scientists and God
by Marty
12-17-2000
When I see sunlight streaming
down, like grace, through a hole in a cloud, it makes me think of God and
how he “talks to us” in this way. In 1997, during the passage of
the Hale-Bopp comet, I went out many nights to look through binoculars
at it. Comets are remnants of matter that dates back to the beginning of
the Solar System, about 4.6 billion years ago. Sometimes God uses
such things to say something to us; He certainly did with the Star of Bethlehem.
You will remember that the members of the Heaven’s Gate cult in
California thought a spaceship containing higher beings was accompanying
the Hale-Bopp comet. All 39 of them killed themselves in the belief they
would rendezvous with the spaceship in that way. The otherworldly
leaders of such cults are devils. And devils always demand human
sacrifice! They got 39 deaths.
Why should so much of nature
be beautiful? Mountains, sunsets, rainbows, birds, dogs, squirrels?
Why? My answer is that God designed them to be beautiful, for us,
His other creatures. The Baltimore Catechism says God made nature,
and us, “to show forth His Goodness.” Genesis says, “God saw everything
that He had made and it was good.” Many modern scientists will say
we evolved blindly out of matter and it is normal for us to admire these
other collections of matter, our “molecular ancestors”, so to speak.
That brings me to one of
the most brilliant men I have ever observed, Dr. Carl Sagan. This
astronomer dazzled me and many others with his glittering PBS TV series
and book, both named COSMOS. No question that he was a genius, and
a superb storyteller. Cosmos, the book, starts out with this
sentence: “The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.”
That just stunned me as a purposeful contradiction of the line in
the Baltimore Catechism: “God always was, and always will be, and always
remains the same.” The famous Library of Alexandria, in Egypt, was
the repository of hundreds of thousands of scrolls containing most of the
secular knowledge of the ancient world. According to legend, it was
burned three times: (1.) In 272 AD, by order of Emperor Aurelian. (2.)
In 391 AD, under Emperor Theodosius I. (3.) In 640 AD, by Muslims, under
Caliph Umar I. In Cosmos and elsewhere, Dr. Sagan blamed the
391 AD fire on St. Cyril of Alexandria and even claimed Cyril was canonized
for doing so! When I saw him make that charge on television,
I did not know whether to scream or weep. I started including Carl
in my Rosaries.
Dr. Sagan was a prominent
secular humanist. In the Humanist Manifesto, it is asserted that
there is no God, no evidence for a God and no need for a God! In
fact, they say, belief in God actively retards human progress. (I
use a capital “G” for God; they use a lower case “g”.) Despite a temporarily
successful bone marrow transplant and a valiant personal struggle, Dr.
Sagan died in 1996.
These are microscopic particles
of blood from the Shroud of Turin, which may well be the burial cloth of
Jesus Christ. (As you can tell, I believe it is.) They have
been shown to be blood by Dr. Alan Adler, a chemist highly skilled in this
area. I can’t yet give you the name of the scientist who showed that
the reddish substance in multiple places on the Shroud is human blood,
type AB.
That intrigues me. Of the
three major blood types, A has an identifying protein; so does B. O
has no identifying protein. Jesus Christ, as a universal Savior, thereby
covers all three major blood types of humans: He has the proteins
for A and B and covers O by lacking the same protein that all type O’s
lack.
There is a scientist, Dr.
Walter McCrone, who continues to insist that there is no blood on the Shroud.
He says that the reddish substance on the Shroud is iron oxide (rust) pigment
and that the Shroud is a painting. Both contentions have been disproved.
The blood is real blood. No other cloth image from any time shows
similar photographic-like negativity. No other cloth image contains
3-D information. For that matter, no other photographs, except those
of the Shroud, contain undistorted 3-D information.
That brings me to the main
thesis of this essay. Since no one can say what really goes on in
another person’s mind, unless that person truly tells what is going on,
I can’t prove my thesis. But, as a scientist who has dealt
with many other scientists, I have found that many do not believe in God.
Scientists, more than others, are allowed to see exquisite design and order
in galaxies and inside the human body. But many reject a Designer
or an Orderer. And the vehemence some show in their disbelief has
convinced me that they are not atheists!
They are antitheists!
They strongly suspect, or even know, there is a God; and they hate Him!
They believe in complete freedom in pursuing knowledge, without moral or
other limits. Nothing is forbidden. American “Catholic” universities
have repudiated any truly Catholic limits on what can be discussed in religion
and philosophy. In 1967, a statement from a group of Catholic universities
included, “there must be no forbidden books or subjects.” This is
apostasy!
The
Angel of Death
of Auschwitz, Dr. Josef Mengele, did malicious experiments on twins just
to see what would happen!
The main thing for which
antitheists hate God, though, is that God requires us to keep our passions
under control. And that is completely unacceptable to the antitheist.
I don’t know so much about other countries, but America is a cesspool of
impurity. Little girls, 12y/o, sell themselves on city streets!
Similarly aged grammar school girls may consent, to be “popular.”
The internet overflows with
pornography. A friend sent me a dancing girl who took off another
garment every time you “clicked” the mouse pointer on her. She stayed
on the screen, no matter what I did to make her go away and I had to turn
off the computer to escape. And, yes, I had to escape, even at 61.
There is no age, however great, at which you can’t any longer be tempted
to that sin. At Fatima, Mary said, “Most souls are led to Hell by
sins of the flesh.” I won’t go on. No wonder Our Blessed Mother
keeps saying, in apparitions and locutions, that the World is worse than
before the Flood! Antitheists mean to eat, drink and be merry and
to Hell with restrictions!
A final note, “Hell” should
always be capitalized; it is a real place, like New York City.
Ave Maria!