Why Modern Science Produces Motion Without Meaning - LewRockwell

 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/mark-keenan/why-modern-science-produces-motion-without-meaning/ 

True knowledge does not require rejecting reason. It requires restoring it to its proper place. Reason is a tool, not a throne. When intellect serves truth, it illuminates. When it replaces truth, it blinds. The ancient warning about speculative knowledge was not anti-intellectual; it was anti-arrogance. Reality is not conquered by force of intellect but disclosed through alignment—alignment of mind with truth, and ultimately alignment with a higher power or source of order that precedes human institutions. Civilizations forget this at their peril.

This may be why serious inquiry so often leads back to simplicity. Not simplistic answers, but simple orientation. A willingness to ask not only “how” but “why.” A recognition that consciousness points beyond matter, that order points beyond chance, and that love points beyond survival. Love points beyond survival because it routinely contradicts it. Humans sacrifice comfort, safety, and even life itself for truth, for children, for strangers, and for principles. No materialist framework can fully account for this without reducing love to illusion. Yet love remains one of the most empirically undeniable facts of human experience.

These are not mystical evasions; they are empirical facts of human experience.

The most radical idea today is not rebellion but humility.

To acknowledge that truth has a source beyond institutions is to reclaim freedom.To accept that knowledge and truth have a moral—and ultimately divine—source is not to abandon reason but to rescue it from reduction and manipulation. Truth is not merely accurate calculation; it is alignment and loving service to what is real, good, and meaningful. Truth involves stepping out of the noise.

Beating an empty husk produces only dust. Returning to the grain requires courage—the courage to question assumptions, to resist manufactured consensus, and to admit that the deepest truths may be given, not invented. Civilization does not suffer from lack of intelligence. It suffers from misdirected intelligence.

Creation, matter, inspiration, and knowledge itself lose coherence when emptied of God or transcendent meaning. Science, severed from that source, becomes motion without purpose—an endless manipulation of symbols detached from understanding. Until science rediscovers and acknowledges this synthesis, it will remain like wheat without grain: impressive in motion, barren in substance.

Contrary to godless scientism, the fulfillment of science is not the elimination of transcendence but the recognition of its own foundations. Science reaches maturity not when it claims to explain everything, but when it acknowledges that order, intelligibility, and consciousness are not products of blind chance but signs of a deeper source.

As Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, observed:

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”

Werner Heisenberg reached a similar conclusion from within physics itself:

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”

And Lord Kelvin spoke plainly of what science encounters when it looks honestly at reality:

“Overwhelmingly strong evidence of intelligent and benevolent design lies around us.”

The way forward is not more speculation, but intellectual humility and honesty. Not louder experts, but deeper responsibility. Not godless science, but science grounded once again in meaning.