Scientists are like Joe who lost his car keys at night and spent an hour looking unsuccessfully for them under a lamp post. His friend asked why didn’t elsewhere. Joe said: “Because this is the only place with light.” Scientists are searching for the truth of our world with even a narrower perspective!

False gospels, misplaced beliefs, and scientific dogma have led to scientists ignoring where there are truths. A recent Scientific American devoted the entire issue to address the big questions such as the origin of the universe and how life may have begun on Earth. The authors are world-class scientists who practice and preach their belief system that our world can be fully explained by “things.”

Of course this materialistic belief ignores the possibility that this assumption is what is preventing them from the truth. Professor Richard Henry in the journal Nature has criticized scientists’ materialistic stance: “The only reality is mind and observations, but observations are not things. To see the universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. The universe is immaterial–mental and spiritual.”

Let me be clear. I am a scientist and have a high regard for the contributions of the hundred of thousands of scientists who worship the false gospel of materialism. I subscribe to Scientific American and enjoy its articles: however, I realize that for the big questions scientists’ materialistic perspective is shrouding the truth.

But this materialistic focus has not succeeded in explaining our world. Quantum theory and experiments are screaming an alternate perspective that when given the consideration of Richard Henry solves the mysteries.

Dark energy, dark matter, parallel universes, hidden dimensions of space, origin of the universe, and origin of life all are products of the materialistic perspective. I find this sad.

I ask of you readers and fellow scientists to consider the alternative–this is what scientists are taught to practice, to avoid false beliefs. Dogma is a powerful intoxicant.

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