Theological Science and Mind

Today, many scientists, most logicians, most biologists and medical doctors, and all atheists, evolutionists, and naturalists believe that the mind is a shadow or epiphenomenon of the brain. These people also believe that humans are mechanisms, whose wholeness is equal to the sum of its parts. They say that humans originate from purely physical matter, even though they have never found any physical matter.

The number of such people add up to be about 10 % of all people in the world. So, 90% of the people in the world reject these beliefs. Yet, the 10% ers continue to practice their beliefs in many nations, often with considerable government funds. If one wants to know the cause of today’s world problems, the causes will be found among the promotion of the beliefs of these 10% ers.

The theory that the mind is a shadow of the brain has an opposing theory. The opposing theory says that mind is a thing-in-itself and is only one of many other things-in-themselves. As a thing-in-itself himself, God created all other things-in-themselves differently in the image of himself. God created the human mind as a very special thing-in-itself because our minds have the same potential to become conscious about all other created things-in-themselves in the universe. In the Bible at Rom. 1:20, St. Paul recognized the knowledge potentials of our mind. The different potentials of our minds were also taught by Jesus Christ, who taught self-knowledge to his audiences.

While Nicholas of Cusa, Kant, et al conclude that our minds cannot develop complete knowledge about God, they conclude that we can gain good understandings about God. Hegel went further and concluded that man can develop completed thoughts in our minds about some created things-in-themselves. Further, I conclude that Georg Cantor’s transfinite numbers, which are not being developed by our mathematicians, will recognize things-in-themselves that are currently being hidden by our finite number systems. In other words, alternatives to the thing- in-itself we call ‘oil’ might be found in other forms of energetic things-in-themselves.

For some reasons, the10% ers do not seem to understand the nature of things-in-themselves. Perhaps, our scientific courses in our colleges and universities are outdated and need to be updated.