Scientists have known for decades that humans, known scientifically as homo sapiens, are primates. Because our educational curricula are a reflection of our scientific discoveries this information has been part of the curricula taught in our schools for quite a long time. But when one looks at how science approaches the study of humans in comparison to the study of other primates and other species it appears that humans are treated as if they are neither primates nor a species. At this point humans remain the only species that is studied from the perspective of the individual organism rather than from the perspective of the species. This is a serious gap in our practice of science and by extension in our educational curriculum. More importantly it explains why humans are dissatisfied with the current human condition. This condition will not be corrected until the gap in our science and in our education is closed.

While you are complaining about the condition of the world in which we live you need to ask if you would like to live in the world that you want to exist. How would you like to live in a world without mercy, empathy, sympathy, forgiveness, grace, or encouragement?

Maybe you would understand it better if I rephrased that question. What kind of a world do you think would exist if God got rid of sin? If there is no sin what use would we have for forgiveness? Who needs mercy if no one does wrong? Who needs encouragement if none is discouraged? Who needs grace if none is unable? Who need sympathy or empathy is none has been hurt?

There are three facets to what we call science. The most obvious is the Practice of science which involves how we do science. Next is the Philosophy of science which addresses why we do science. Finally, there is the Principle of Science which addresses why we are able to do what we do in science. The literature addresses the first two but is silent on the third. However, the answers to the problems that vex us the most can only be found in a review of the third facet of science. The first two facets focus on data that we positively gather from the world around us. The third focuses on the same data but from a different perspective that does not depend on human intellect.

A wedding does not begin a marriage. A wedding is a marriage. The only thing a wedding begins is a family. If you believe that God gave you a gift when you were wed or married that gift was not your spouse, no matter how beautiful or handsome that spouse may be. The only gift the God has given to you is the gift of a brand new family. It is to your family that your are to be committed, not to your spouse. When our devotions to our spouses (shouldn't that be spice?) over-ride our devotions to our families ruin is at the door.

A bucket was not designed to hold water; it was designed to be filled with water. You need to empty the bucket periodically for it to meet its full potential.

You can find funding agencies that will give you a grant to study the behavior of a non-human species or the health of a non-human species but there is no agency that will give you a grant to study the health of the human species. They will only provide grants to study the behavior of humans or the health of individual humans. This comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what constitutes scientific inquiry.