TODAY'S SPLIT REALITY

     People today have a fractured view of reality, and what's more, they are used to it, and even comfortable with it, as long as nobody forces them to think about it.  Because scientific data has been largely interpreted in a materialistic philosophic stream -- that is, it has been assumed that everything can and must be explained in terms of an impersonal time plus chance origin -- all testable data about humanity therefore seems to lead to the conclusion that we are nothing more than biochemical machines.  The wonder and complexity of the DNA molecule, the master digital code of life, instead of being recognized as the signature of an intelligent Creator-designer, becomes the ultimate sterile "proof" that we are only machines.  Yet only intelligent beings can create digitally coded software to work with molecular biological hardware.  Likewise, the complex biochemistry of sexual attraction and emotion, instead of being seen as part of the physical mechanics of a lovingly designed whole person, is rather interpreted as "evidence" that our sexual behavior is chemically predetermined, and that all spirituality, free will and personality are mere illusion -- this often without even establishing whether the biochemistry involved is a hormonal cause or an effect of the behaviors in question.  The "scientific facts" do not demand these ideas -- only the starting philosophies of many scientists and educators do.  And not even the most committed of these men and women can live with their own conclusions.  Each must take what Dr. Francis Schaeffer has called "a leap of faith into the realm of non-reason" to give their own personal lives meaning.²¹  UFO aliens coming to save humanity from itself, a fabled "next step upward on the evolutionary ladder," hypnotic plunges into artificially induced Shirley MacLaine-style "past incarnations," making contact with an "intelligent planet earth" -- all irrational, all spawned by well educated people as desperate attempts to find only the illusion of a meaning each is convinced they can never truly have.  This is because their reasoning processes, locked into a false set of starting assumptions, are pre-programmed to produce the conclusion that all is meaningless mechanics -- that all is part of some great, impersonal machine.  The problem is; nobody can live with that!  Human beings simply do not behave in that way!²² 
     This is called "Existentialism" in philosophy circles, and by definition it is a split view of reality; where reason leads to pessimism, and only a "leap of faith" into some non-reason experience can give the illusion of meaning.  It does not matter what that experience is.  This is not the evidential faith of the Bible, but a truly blind kind of faith where nothing about content or reason matters.²³  This describes the world view of Post-Modern humanity, even if the individual people who live there have no idea what the words Post-Modernism and  Existentialism mean.
     Modern people live in two worlds:  The so-called "real" world; where a science that is force-marched by a faith-held materialistic undergirding philosophy has "proven" that we are all just biochemical machines who evolved by chance (this despite the known statistical absurdities involved in that position).²⁴  And the "leap of faith" world; where each individual can create their own meaning and values, which in turn do not have to make sense in the "real" world because they are not based on reason, but on emotion and wishful thinking.  Some may think this is freedom, but if so it is a freedom only to destroy, which eventually directs even well intended creative impulses to self-destructive conclusions.  For in this environment, all objective truth becomes extinct, because all that pertains to the realm of meaning and values is placed in a magic faerie world where each person can create their own deluded "reality," and the only binding rule is that no one had better dare to introduce evidence that there might be some objective, absolute standard from God like, say, the Bible!  Hence the hostility towards historic Christianity.