Amen, Juls.
You know the problem with many scientists is Pride, I admit that I myself am tangled in it whenever it comes with work and in research, when one is left in the laboratory for hours in research, the mind is too busy digesting and contemplating all that was learned, one then believes they are greater than others due to their accumulated knowledge. This is where the sense of false
superiority comes into place. The devil plays with all of us, Juls, and I do believe in his presence in our world. He provides us with the setting to question our own faith, even the most pious of us question faith at times (I myself am not perfect, am far from perfect, and I will admit that there are times that I question my faith, or times when I despair) the devil plays with us and tries to trick us that we can in fact become gods. I have met countless of great minds in my field, from attending countless biology seminars and graduate seminars, there are biologists that see themselves as somewhat god-like, specially those whose written works and research precedes them in the field of academia.
However, it is ironic that though they enjoy pride and enlightened knowledge now, everything that they have learned and molded with their hands for the benefit of Human knowledge will come and go. Though they see themselves as divine, their bodies will not, in fact their bodies will follow the natural flow of things, their genetic band that allows genetic translation, transcription and replication will weaken with age and as a result, genetic mutanogenesis will occur, as a result causing ill-effects in phenotype as in malformation of red blood cells (sickle cell anemia), the deterioration of their neural synapses and thereby preventing proper neuroelectric impuses from traveling downt he blood-brain barrier, hence a manifestation of memory loss, failure in memory retrieval, because God made it so, their obicularis oris and the obicularis oculi will loosen and as a result eye sight and ability to focus the ocular lens will fade, as age takes its course. The osteoblasts and osteoclasts within their bones will fail to form and retain calcification, and as a result bone loss will manifest (osteoporosis, etc). All of these, though understood by man through science, cannot be fully reversed by science (not by the current standards of treatment we have in place), the very great scientists whose pride claim them as gods cannot reverse the natural flow of aging. They, as man and a creation of the Creator, so too must follow suite in what was dictated by the creator. As our genes replicate, as our cells are created and die, so too must we. We are not different, only a larger sentient form of the organelles that compose our billions of cells, which compose us.
God has willed it so. Life, and death, it is absolute.
Then again I see this symbiosis as a test, that God allows us to be tested by the devil.
It is our ability, as scientists--and privileged with the intelligence we have--to transcend and accept that there truly is a life after this physical state. As cells die, and are eventually phagocytized by leukocytes of the immune system, they become part of the greater body. So too must we, become part of the greater body that is Christ, in union with the Father and the Holy Spirit. He tests our faith, and Heprovides us with the free will to either accept or reject the salvation that He offers.
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