Geoffrey Dobbs on Religation By Brian Simpson

Science educated social creditor, Geoffrey Dobbs, gave a brilliant address “Religation,” developed themes discussed in a paper given on April 9, 1976 at the Science and Religion forum at the meeting of Cumberland Lodge, on the topic, “Man’s Responsibility for Nature.” The aim was to make a contribution to the science-religion debate, which Dobbs very much did, and certainly achieved in his career as a writer and speaker.

Both science and religion are realist enterprises, holding that there is an external objective reality, from which scientific theories can be tested by observation and experiment, and faith put to the test of practice. Both also have philosophical underpinnings, assumptions that may not be easily tested about the fundamental nature of reality. Just as important while everyone has a philosophy, they also have a policy, that which determines a person’s objectives, and long-term goals and aims. Religation is “the process of ‘binding back’ the idea of reality to the actual reality of the world in which we live.”

Dobbs notes that atheist materialists tend to be given an easy ride posing as having no metaphysical or philosophical commitments, contrasted to men of faith and religion, and they portray themselves as free thinkers and men of reason, when in fact they are up to their necks in philosophical  assumptions about the nature of reality.

Dobbs illustrates these thoughts by a consideration of the relegation of different beliefs to the policies relating to research and teaching in biology. The rise of Darwinian evolution has produced a philosophy of atheistic materialism, seen most notably in Soviet and Chinese communism, but also right throughout Western institutions now, especially the modern universities, where anthropotheism is the ruling ideology: “man is held to be the supreme Being because of his power – power, that is to dominate and manipulate and change and impose his will upon all other beings by virtue of his great Brain, which has enabled him to develop language and numbers and other symbols, and hence abstract thought and cumulative knowledge and method and cunning in imposing these thoughts upon the world around him.”

For our purposes, what is important about these materialist quest for domination, is that it is the criterion of supremacy, be it the State, the party of the class. This leads to the policy of progressive centralisation of power in the hands of a few men, the elites, who operate in the name of the central authority, which is a mere facade for their own will to power. Doctrines such as evolution serve these interests, as does everything else they can muster.

Beyond this, the philosophy and policy of anthrotheism has impacted upon the entire basis upon which modern science is practiced Dobbs argues. To take one further example, mathematics, the concern has been with the creation of models which reality is banged into, rather than the models emerging from careful observation and experiment. Dobbs does not discuss this, as it was only early days when he gave his speech, but the foundations of physics now is dominated by abstract mathematics, so complex that many of the champions of present trends such as string theory, the attempt to unify Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, proclaim with pride that the theory is untestable. After all, it involves the postulation of perhaps 11 extra dimensions of space! It is a good question how three-dimensional beings actually test such an idea.

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Dobbs is thus certainly correct in saying that “the modern teaching of mathematics … is a process, of ideological (or religious) indoctrination which has the deepest consequences. It is a conditioning exercise in the imposition of ‘mathematics’ upon reality, rather than the use of ‘mathematics’ in the understanding of reality. It is a first step a process which leads to the imposition of mathematical models upon the real, and especially upon the living world, and the gross tyranny of numbers, of bureaucratic and financial control and 'numerical democracy under which mankind now increasingly groans.”

What then is the answer to regaining control over science? Clearly a first step must be the social credit one of regaining control over basic finance and economy, the soil from which science and mathematics grows. If the direction of growth can be controlled at a base level, it may then be possible to encourage healthy scientific growth, rather than the parasitic forms we now have to deal with each day in this blog. I am sure that Dobbs, who died in 1996, would be still astonished at what politically  correct use has been made of science and technology in our time to create a tyrannical New World Order, that we must oppose and defeat, or else, all is lost.