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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 7, 1984
! have spent all .!!!Y life working on the brain and know what a
wonderful structure it is, how it gives us an immense range of
experiences.
It is also a tremendous storehouse of memories,
which is what it's principally for. But examining the brain in
all possible scientific ways doesn't mean that I can know why,
when I open my eyes, I see a world of light and color.
We live in the world of experiences, not in the world of the brain
events. I've never seen my brain. All I know is that from morn
ing to night I'm living amid sound and light, touch and language,
thought and action. This is .!!!Y world, and much of it is not ex
plicable scientifically. Science also cannot explain the exis
tence of each of us as a unique self, nor can it answer such fun
damental questions as: Who am!? Why�! here? How did I come
to be at a certain place and time? What happens after death?
These are all mysteries that are beyond science.
Science has gone too far in breaking down man's belief in his
spiritual greatness and has given him the belief that he is
merely an insignificant animal who has arisen by chance and ne
cessity on an insignificant planet lost in the great cosmic im
mensity. But that does not mean that religion and science are
necessarily at odds.
Max Planck, the great physicist, was a
practicing Catholic.
Albert Einstein believed in a God of the
cosmos...• I, myself, am a practicing Christian. To hold views
such as mine about the mystery of existence, you don't have to be
a religious person. The great philosopher of science Sir Karl
Popper, with whom I have written a book on this subject, holds
similar beliefs--and he describes himself as an agnostic. Both
of us recognize the great wonder of existence. We believe in
both� material world and� mental-spiritual world.
Sir John Eccles' remarks certainly corroborate the truth about the differ
ence between animal brain and human mind that God inspired Mr. Armstrong to
understand.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau