Some people of science do speak the truth from behind the plow

(A column of opinion by Gary Reid, Publisher Emeritus)

Former President Barack Obama liked to use the term, “go with the science” – not real science, of course, just stuff that people with a Ph.D. behind their name and who relish government grants will cough out things that comply with the political rhetoric of the Left.

I prefer to rely on the opinion of independent scientists like Alan Joseph Bauer, who writes columns on politics but makes his living as an inventor using his doctorate in biochemistry.

Bauer is a Jew and comments that he was somewhat lackadaisical about his religious practices as a young man.

But that changed later. He wrote about it this way: “As I did my research first for a bachelor’s degree and later for a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, I came to an inescapable conclusion. I am including a link to a poster that used to hang in my apartment in Madison. It was put out by the Boehringer-Mannheim Company. It shows the biochemical pathways that were known at that time. While you do not need to know the names of enzymes doing the reactions or the specific pathways listed, you probably will come away with one conclusion: what goes on in our cells is extremely complex. There are thousands of enzymes performing various necessary reactions to keep us healthy and functional. And what I concluded during my doctoral work was that there are two possibilities: it just happened naturally or I was peeking into the handiwork of God.”

He also wrote: “While some may try to invoke bacteria from outer space or some such thing as being the source of life on Earth, I think it fair that one can either choose a completely God-free path of material somehow appearing, making a transition from lifeless chemicals into something living, and then that living thing developing and evolving into all of the species in the world, or you can say that God created it all. It was actually the science that pushed me towards religious observance. When one looks at the incredible perfection of biological structure-function relationships, he has to be a fool to think that it all just happened randomly. My thesis project as an undergraduate at Harvard involved studying an enzyme in which a key portion was slightly modified by directed DNA mutation. Though the altered enzyme had only a small change in structure, its reaction rate dropped from 10,000 reactions per second to 3. One can—and must—conclude that either the world around us is simply the result of random events or the work of a truly extraordinary God. Again, we’ll skip the other theories. Is a human with his 30 trillion cells and enough DNA to go to the moon and back tens of thousands of times just an outcome of impersonal evolutionary events or a reflection of the divine?”

I recall a television show I watched at one time when I could still get it, featuring scientists – from Canada, I think – who expressed similar ideas.

I believe it was Hugh Ross, a Canadian astrophysicist, who convinced me the more an individual digs into science, the more he (or she) begins to believe that the many miracles we observe around us daily didn’t result from happenstance but were created by an unbelievably intelligent force.

That reminds me of an article I read recently, which said the Bible has been determined by archaeologists as the go-to book on ancient history, providing accurate detailed information about older civilizations – the people, leaders, locations of cities and other important details not found anywhere else.

America – and the geographic West – was founded on Judeo-Christian precepts and those were instrumental in the creation of the most moral, successful nation in history, which reminds me of Founder John Adams’ famous comments to the Massachusetts Militia: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

The last several years have shown what happens to a great government when greed and ego enter into the mix.

Bauer refers to it as hubris. “What happens when people believe they are the creators, that there is nobody above them?”he asks.

“The results can be spelled Fauci, Gates, Comey or a whole bunch of other combinations of letters, he surmises.

“Tony Fauci and his cabal at NIH and China thought that they were so smart, so experienced, so good that they could play around with a natural virus with little to no chance of danger. Their hubris led to the death of millions and the destruction of societies from which we have yet to fully recover. Fauci, Gates, and the folks over at Pfizer and Moderna figured that you could inject a human with mRNA and what could go wrong? From death and disability to serious questions as to whether the vaccines actually prevented illness or seriously reduced its virulence, the god-scientists unleashed chemicals whose negative impacts on the human body have yet to be fully documented. We know of heart damage, primarily in younger men. Some have posited that the excess deaths seen post-Covid in Europe were an outcome of the new vaccines. A little dose of modesty might have saved millions from adverse effects.

“James Comey and his colleagues over at the FBI violated federal laws to destroy President Trump, because he was not their cup of tea. … General Milley violated his military oath and offered the Chinese a leg up should the US go to war with them. Fifty-one former intelligence officials knew that Hunter Biden’s laptop was real (the FBI at that time had had it for over a year). But their hatred of Trump and more honestly the folks who voted for him led them to brazenly lie to the American people and claim that the laptop was the work of Russian disinformation. From Lois Lerner at the IRS to the people who faked 2020 election ballots, when there is no God over their heads, then they become gods unto themselves. Anything is possible.

Bauer concludes most people see religion kind of like dessert: if you want some you can have it, leading to an attitude that everything is legitimate.” Then he said: “One has to be a big believer to think that the world just made itself. A little modesty would be in order from those who know a lot less than they think.”