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Some time ago, Stephen Hawking wrote a book called A Brief History of Time. Hawking concluded his book by saying something like this: We are on the verge of solving the last few issues in science before we complete the Grand Unified Theory of Everything. Then we won’t need to speculate about a God to explain everything about the world that is.

Then science discovered dark matter and dark energy, about which, they confessed, they knew nothing and which comprised something like 95% of everything that is.

Still scientists felt confident in asserting that the whole universe began approximately 13.5 billion years ago in the big bang. Then they learned from their latest telescope, the James Web Telescope, that many things must have existed before 13.5 billion years ago. The big bang is not the answer.

In the 1980s a celebrity cosmologist named Carl Sagan asserted this proposition: Although we do not currently know how the brain works, we know that when we discover the answer, it will be electrical, chemical in nature. Perhaps the reason he could be so sure is because science only has the tools to investigate electrical, chemical phenomena, so no other “explanation” would be acceptable.

But now, even Sagan’s confident assurance turns out to be on shaky ground. See my last post about The Brain as Receiver. If you gave up looking for God because you thought science had all the answers, you too are on shaky ground.