Having eliminated the soul, modern science cannot understand the body in its most important aspect, which is its capacity for self-importance. Modern biology, particularly the theory of evolution, is based on the overriding concern for survival in all life. This is surely wrong in regard to human life. If you cannot look around you and must insist on indulging a taste for the primitive, you have only to visit the ruins of an ancient people and ponder how much of its GNP was devoted to religion, to its sense of the meaning of human life rather than mere survival.


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Having eliminated the soul, modern science cannot understand the body in its most important aspect, which is its capacity for self-importance. Modern ...

Having eliminated the soul, modern science cannot understand the body in its most important aspect, which is its capacity for self-importance. Modern ...

Having eliminated the soul, modern science cannot understand the body in its most important aspect, which is its capacity for self-importance. Modern ...

Having eliminated the soul, modern science cannot understand the body in its most important aspect, which is its capacity for self-importance. Modern ...