Science is both a tool and a process. We are very familiar with its function as a tool but its function as a process has not seeped into our consciousness. As a tool it is something that we use to create models of the world around us. As a process it works on us to fit us for our place in the world. Consequently, we serve two distinct roles in this reality.

It is important that we understand and appreciate the difference between those two roles and how each impacts the other.

If you want to know what Christians think about marriage and family don't pay attention to their marriages or their families. Listen to what they have to say about Adam and Eve's proto-marriage and their family.

Many have expressed the view that Adam was a wuss because he did not abandon his family after his "wife" ate the fruit of the tree. .

There is built into the fundamentals of Christian practical theology a mindset that the family is not important to fight for -- that it should be abandoned on the first provocation. .

If we really want to heal our families we need to get our story on Adam and Eve right.

Why is marriage so important to humans when we are the only species that practices it, it provides nothing that cannot be obtained without it, and we have not found a way to make a success of it?

Clearly, the decision to stick with marriage is not one that we have made but one that has been imposed on us. Wisdom dictates tht we should try to understand this phenomenon for it is part of our cultural DNA.

Are you one of those people who are concerned about the purpose of life? If you want the answer you probably know to ignore the hundreds of books that have been written on the subject, and it doesn't help to analyze your own life. You have not lived long enough.

Here is an idea. Pick anyone you have been close to. The only requirement is that this person must be dead. Here you have all the data you need to figure out the purpose of life. Here is someone who actually completed the cycle of life. The purpose of life is bound in that person's life. What have you learned about life from that life? That is the purpose of life.

It is amusing how committed humans are to the idea that they are radically different from other humans. Have they forgotten what it means to be human?

You could make the argument that you are radically different from other species but how can you think you are radically different from other humans?

That is the height of self-deception.

For the church to continue teaching its current understanding of human salvation and redemption it must abandon its teaching of divine omnipresent. Only a God who is "on his way" can be excused for not yet putting an end to human suffering.

By the same token, scientists have to also admit that nothing they are currently doing is going to change humanity. It is time to get together to find the better way forward.

It is utter madness to continue on the path we are currently.

Humans spend all their lives trying to learn lessons from the world around (and it appears that this is as it should be), blissfully unaware that this is the reason they have not learned anything as a species.

We have thought it unnecessary to learn from themselves. Our natural science is focused on our environment and our behavioral science is focused on the behaviors of individuals and groups of individuals. But we think that no attention needs to be paid to our behavior as a species. The result is that we remain uneducated, short of our highest potential.