Despite its grossly left-wing, liberal bias, "60 Minutes" is one of my favorite TV news magazines. Check that. It is my favorite. This week's program had a segment in which the scientist who discovered and mapped the human genome was interviewed in depth.

The man's scientific and intellectual genius is impressive. What he has contributed to the knowledge of life is incalculable. The interviewer asked him pointedly, "Do you believe in God?" (Because the interviewer had just suggested that the scientist might be playing God.) After a moment's hesitation, the scientist replied, "No."

My instant response on hearing this was sadness. I thought, "How disappointing."

It is true, however, that despite how much the human mind may explore Creation, or what astounding discoveries are made, or what the human intellect is able to accomplish, the one thing that seems to elude scientific research is the existence of God. Men and women of great intellect, this man, others, and even Einstein, reject the notion (and for them it is a notion) of God.

Some would conclude then, that since these great minds, whose capabilities and depth far exceed that of the rest of us, can't find, or believe in God, then perhaps God does not really exist. Simple logic, is it not?

Simple, but terribly flawed. To draw such a conclusion we must have a different sort of faith. We must have a faith that believes in the inerrancy of the human mind. To draw such a conclusion, we abrogate the existence, the reality of God, because of the conclusion of human thought. We relegate the reality of God to the fiction of the human mind, and if the human mind thought him up, the human mind can just as easily, write him off. It seems a form of intellectual retardation, a form of deliberate ignorance, and obstinate refusal to acknowledge that Something exists which is larger than one's self. It is faith in human inerrancy, which had demonstrated itself, infinite times over it seems, that it is not inerrant at all.

Does it occur to anyone that the brains that conclude there is no God were, themselves, the subject of the creation (or procreation) process? Does it occur to anyone that despite the wonders of current scientific research, we are still in the infancy of such research? That our knowledge, despite its advances, is still dancing around the periphery of vast, infinite wisdom? The terrible flaw of science, and scientific achievement, is the obdurate, intellectual arrogance that seems to come with it.

Here is another example of simple logic: To reject the Forgiver, is to reject his forgiveness. And he who rejects forgiveness becomes bereft of it. Search and you will find -- there is no flaw in this Truth.

-- PDM

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