Yes, we have come to this. We are now, hopefully, looking at the aftermath of materialism and dualism. We could play the role of the prosecutorial historian, but we do have bigger fish to fry than those of a few million wayward scientists.

I am merely suggesting that scientists are rapidly becoming less naive about things metaphysical. How could they help to be otherwise? But they do not yet have a means for expressing their newly found, hard won wisdom.

Retrospectively, the scientists will find themselves in an historical position not unlike that of Adam and Eve. They did eat of the forbidden fruit of materialism. Were they not sorely tempted? And look what we would have missed had they not so eaten! Felicitous sin.

As their would-be, historical defense attorneys, we can do one better than that. Along with most everything else, we can lay the blame right back there at the cross. It was the Christ event which unleashed the forces that devolved into materialism and dualism. The buck has to stop somewhere. The whole point of that event was to facilitate the retroactive unburdening of our heavy spirits.

Yes, the Chinese did invent gunpowder, and the Persians did invent Astronomy, and Alchemy, of course. But, and this may be the biggest 'but' in the history of civilization, the Christian world took those odd pieces of human imagination and lit up the world with them. Felicitous sin.

Yes, the scientists did have to overcome ecclesiastical opposition, but in most cases, even with Galileo and Darwin, this opposition was token.

I am not going to offer scientific proof for the unscientific origins of science and secularism. Many historians have already produced worthy reports on the ironic foundations of modernism. Many of those scholars would agree that if Christ never existed, we would be forced to invent him in order to explain the last two thousand years of history. Very few of their insights are taught in Western Civ. 101, and certainly not in Physics 101.

It is with hindsight that we will better appreciate the metaphysics of human history. Only when we grasp the completely spiritual nature of all existence, will we realize that Science will perhaps be the greatest monument to the creative power of the imagination that has ever been constructed. We could never have built the pyramid of modern civilization if we had even half of our spiritual wits intact. The true impact of the Christ event is still percolating in the remaining hidden parts of our psyches. How that force finally emerges will largely determine the outcome of the Eschaton.

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rev. 4/17/97