Roberta Grimes

Consciousness Dawns

Posted by Roberta Grimes • December 27, 2025 • 0 Comment
Quantum Physics, Understanding Reality

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works Thy hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy pow’r throughout The universe displayed!
Chorus Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art! 

When thru the woods And forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds Sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down From lofty mountain grandeur
And hear the brook, And feel the gentle breeze,
Chorus Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
– Carl Boberg (1859-1940) & Stuart K. Hine (1899-1989), from “How Great Thou Art” (1885; 1949)

Yet another year comes to its close, and it marks for us a full century and a quarter since the mainstream scientific gatekeepers imposed upon all scientific research the mandated dogma of materialism. Those gatekeepers thereby turned mainstream science from what should have been an open-minded pursuit of the truth into what still amounts to the closed-minded religion of atheism. Only think of it! At the start of the twentieth century, those then controlling the university science departments and the peer-reviewed scientific journals were so alarmed by the budding implications that they saw in the field of quantum mechanics that they informally, but still firmly, imposed a dogma of materialism upon all scientific research. It is likely that this restrictive dogma was expected at first to be temporary, and held in place just until those gatekeepers could better understand all the implications of quantum mechanics. But early decades soon stretched into years upon years….

A full century and a quarter for mainstream scientists to have been laboring under such a restrictive dogma has become, at this point, a very long time. And for many years, as we have done our occasional check-in, we have seen very little scientific progress made in some fields as a result. That materialist dogma has not been much of an inconvenience in certain areas of investigative science, so during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first there has been indeed considerable research progress made in the core scientific disciplines of traditional physics, biology, medicine, and of course in materialist areas like geology and chemistry. But where meaningful progress glaringly has not been much made has been in some few very significant fields! And three areas in particular have been deeply stunted:

• Consciousness. What consciousness is, where and how it is generated, what it does, and how it works, and so on endlessly: materialist science simply has no clue at all about consciousness, even to this day. For example, more than a billion dollars has been spent seeking a source of consciousness inside the human brain, only to always come up empty. Some 125 years after the mainstream scientific gatekeepers first imposed materialism on mainstream scientific research as their fundamental scientific dogma, they still understand close to nothing about what consciousness is, nor what it does, nor even where it comes from.
• How Life Began on Earth. The basic mainstream scientific story about how life began on earth that is almost universally presented in textbooks has lightning hitting just the right mix of chemicals in a pool of water, and Zap! Life happened. Life was just single living cells at first, but gradually those living cells became more complicated, and they combined into multi-cellular creatures, which then eventually became animals. But of course, this explanation makes no sense at all. For one thing, such suddenly-alive single bits – sure, call them cells – would have no way to remain alive beyond the briefest moment; and they would lack any way to add what they would need to add as the basic means for maintaining their lives beyond that first instant. Nor would they have any way to eventually combine with other also suddenly-living cells, and nor would they be able to ever replicate themselves. The theory as it is presented in textbooks never has a way to take us much beyond that first living instant. To this day, textbooks authoritatively say that this is the way that life began on earth, even though there still is no real evidence that anything like this ever happened.
• How Evolution Actually Works. The story of evolution as it usually is told is that very simple, even single-celled organisms gradually evolved into ever more complex organisms over eons of time, endlessly changing form and growing ever larger and more complex in endlessly creative and ever more positive ways; and smoothly developing new features and functions, entirely without any overall plan, and without the need for prompts from any designer. This broad evolutionary tale that is generally told quite frankly boggles the mind. How is it, for example, that a functioning mega-dinosaur smoothly evolved over time from some single-celled creature, without any plan in place for that to happen? Or for that matter, how did gazelles evolve, again with no plan? How did totally random evolution ever bring us sentient humankind? Of course, the frank evolutionary record tells us that what really happened instead of this imagined utterly random evolutionary track was even weirder: it was long periods of stasis in nearly all animal lines, where little or no change happened; then those periods of stasis were generally followed by sudden, brief periods of rapid change to a new, entirely different creature, which then in turn would go on for a long period of stasis living as that new creature, again with very little change. Scientists who study evolution call this phenomenon “punctuated equilibrium”. In fact, something like punctuated equilibrium indeed does happen in some lines; but all the explanations for it, and the reasons why it doesn’t seem to happen more often, still are poorly understood.

For mainstream scientists to come to fully understand these three important aspects of reality, whether we take each of the three individually or we choose to see all three together, will be tremendously important! For us to fully understand everything about consciousness; about how life began, and about how life developed and became stable from those earliest sparks; for us to come to finally see how evolution truly works in detail, all of this is basic stuff. And yet, the horrifying fact that we confront yet again at the end of the year 2025 is that traditional materialist scientists still understand  almost nothing about consciousness. They still don’t know how life got started on earth, nor how it developed from there. And their understanding of how evolution works is still very primitive, at best, when their materialist dogma will never allow them to admit to any kind of a designer, nor to seek the source of any sort of evolutionary plan. The plain fact is that, even though these questions lie at the core of our ever understanding how our reality works, materialist scientists don’t yet understand any of these three phenomena, pretty much at all, even more than a hundred years after they first imposed their dogma of materialism upon all of mainstream science. And this appalling level of ignorance is a much bigger problem for the whole scientific community than that community ever has let on.  

So, now we look again quickly as the old year ends at our favorite popular science magazines’ latest issues, to see whether there might at this point be even a hint of progress toward greater knowledge to be spotted anywhere.  And, yes indeed, there is! The Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture  has been around for about thirty years now, and it does phenomenal work in the field of non-dogma-based, truly open-minded scientific research. From them, we learn that the argument over intelligent design is by no means seen as settled. Evolution is being studied and debated, and a synthesis among competing theories is at length being sought. What is wonderful is how much more open-minded all of science really seems to be now, thanks to the work of these intellectual leaders!

And, wonder of wonders, now at last we are seeing a first, dawning awareness among trained scientists of something that Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics, fully understood more than a century ago. Dr. Planck saw way back then that consciousness is basic, and he could see that there is no way to get around consciousness. In 1931 he said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness! Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  He felt strongly that consciousness had to be basic, and it must underlie everything; and, sure enough, scientific research has been inching in that direction ever since;  until now, when what is precisely Max Planck’s concept of consciousness underlying it all is actually, finally, being proposed. My dear ones, the truth can indeed be kept from people, even sometimes for more than a hundred years! But, the truth cannot be hidden forever. Sooner or later, the truth will win.

When Christ shall come,
With shout of acclamation, And take me home,
What joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow, In humble adoration,
And there proclaim, My God, how great Thou art!
Chorus Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
– Carl Boberg (1859-1940) & Stuart K. Hine (1899-1989), from “How Great Thou Art” (1885; 1949)

 

 

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