THE FLAW IN THE THEROY (Part-3)

 No matter how many mechanical tricks the materialist can demonstrate through manipulation of matter, his basic assumption contained a serious flaw. Experimental psychology has never produced one convincing explanation for feelings, memories, expectations, desires, beliefs, thoughts, imaginings or intentions. Materialism cannot account for either the towering clouds of sound in a Beethoven symphony or the sense of delight in a child’s laughter. BY denying even the possibility that life  itself was influenced by something other than mechanical factors, the materialist started off in a hole out of which he has never been able to dig himself.

And he ignored one of the most powerful forces in man.

If man is not an animal, as Wundt declared him to bem then what other view is there?

It is coincidence that the declining influence of religion in our society has seen a large increase in our problems.

Yet mankind as a whole has been and is religious, regardless of how his belief in spiritual beings manifests itself. Civilization in large part exists because of man’s belief in spirituality and his aspirations to something higher than his overcome anxiety by providing an understanding of life and the forces of the universe.

Medicine, psychiatry and psychology, however, try to solve the problem of human nature by classifying man in material terms: body and brain-motivated by force. Yet, Darwin’s theory of evolution does not necessarily contradict religious belief, for it does not rule ou ge fact that God or life may simply be using evolution as a means to prvide ways to design the structure of physical organisms. that bodies evolved from lower to higher forms doesn’t prove a thing except that they evolved. But toblindly assert that no spiritual factors were involved can only be called bad science, for it is based solely on opinion.

Humanity has paid dearly for materialism’s many false solutions. Whatever failures religious, political or social institutions had prior to the seminal year of 1879, when Wundt’s themes took root, the situation has deteriouated with the denial of man’s essential spirituality.