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To: ig who wrote (4398)	9/25/2024 8:34:23 PM
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Bret feels that religion is the answer in order for civilization to avoid "hurtling to chaos" but the dilemma he feels over that is we can't return to it because our modern realities are too much of a challenge for ancient wisdom to meet. Around 17:30 he insists that sacred tradition must update to do so, not their core beliefs but their "experimental side." He doesn't elaborate on those modern realities or what experiments he would suggest are. Perhaps he states them in the full video this is from, but I haven't watched it. Heather says their friends increasingly say, "I wish I had religion; I wish I could believe." They're in the same camp. Bret and Heather are evolutionary biologists. This would prevent them from accepting any notion that humans have a spirit, i.e. an immaterial inner living part of our human nature. They'd object because as committed naturalists that sort of thing is not possible. I'm sure their friends who can't believe are of that opinion too. But religions do believe in the existence of the spiritual world, one that exists and has influence or even interacts with this physical one. What the Christian faith offers is the blending of the spiritual and the material through the Incarnation. Jesus, the eternal, immaterial Son of God became a full human being and will remain so forever. This is why He is the center of creation, both the visible and invisible one. I hope Bret and Heather can find their way to faith in the Gospel but it will mean death to their worldview that they're professors of, therefore, life as they know it. They're both serious thinkers and observers so they have likely already suspected that.