This argument is unfairly stacked.
The "I know everything" book is written by fundamentalists, whereas the "I don't know enough" books are written by thinkers with intellectual integrity. It's an unfair comparison, one that atheists make all the time. They bring the best of science against the worst of religion.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel—hardly any skill is required at all.
You never hear these self-righteous, true believers in science (or atheism) take on heavy hitters like Meister Eckhart or Thomas Aquinas. One, they don't understand them, and two, they don't want to.
The real debate—and I've given a lot of thought to this—can be summed up thus: Is consciousness a product of the brain or is the brain a product of consciousness?
In other words, did life evolve from the bottom up or from the top down?
Did life, as the high priests of scientism like to claim (completely without evidence, btw) crawl out of a mud puddle because of a catalyzing lightning strike, or does matter organize itself as exquisitely as it does in an attempt to form itself to patterns in an already existing universal intelligence?
Sacred Geometry, anyone?
We've all seen the glorious displays of sand forming intricate patterns when vibrated by specific sound waves (Cymatics). The inert matter of the sand organizes itself as a result of being excited by the sound.
And, we've heard that the universe has a frequency—the OM, apparently—that pervades all space and matter. I do not find it hard to imagine that this universal "sound" carries within itself all of the intelligence that governs, well...everything.
I'm not alone in this. Mystics throughout the millennia have said virtually the same thing. Christian and Greek mystics called it "The Logos"—the "Word" of Saint John—the thing without which nothing could be made that was made.
In the beginning, God said.
Memes like this one are funny, and they have an element of truth to them. But you have to close one eye to see it. They play into the hands of Scientism—the New Religion—perhaps inadvertently, but most certainly.
"Follow the science" has become an article of faith used primarily by people who don't like to think for themselves.
Just like religious fundamentalists.
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