To the unbelieving materialist, man is merely an evolutionary accident, condemned to a hopeless existence devoid of meaning. [1]
The false philosophies of mechanism fail to account for the fatalistic agility of the mind of a materialist who asserts the universe is a purposeless energy phenomenon. [2] Materialism is the maximation of ugliness, the finite antithesis of beauty. [3] Materialism is present, but not the exclusive law of the cosmos. [4]
Materialism cheapens human life, while the gospel of Jesus exalts and enhances every mortal, bridging the meeting of human upreach and divine downreach. [5]
The pursuit of truth, not the false science of materialism, helps mortal man avoid becoming an outcast in the universe, by seeking the divinely real and beautiful symmetrical truth that is replete with both good and evil. [6] The dire harvest of materialism and secularism will bring even more terrible destruction in the future. [7] The error in religion increases in proportion to the amount of materialism that corrupts the concept of the Universal Father. [8]
The presence of intelligent purpose in material creation is demonstrated by over 50,000 facts of physics and chemistry that defy accidental chance, as well as numerous other findings outside these domains. [9]
In denying the personality of the First Source and Center, one is left with the choice of either materialism or pantheism, both of which fall into the corporeality error of equating personality with physical form. [10] Materialism disregards the reality that all material things are first conceived within human consciousness. [11]
Scientific materialism's bankruptcy is evident when it consistently refunds objections by referring the higher to the lower, contradicting the reality of spiritual experience and the activities of a purposive Creator. [12]
Understanding of water molecule disproves materialistic philosophy and mechanistic cosmology by revealing the unpredictable superadditive nature of its composition. [13]
Viewing matter as basic reality, with mind and spirit as postulates rooted in matter, distorts understanding of the Infinite Spirit as the Third Source and Center, better described as the Infinite Reality or Universal Organizer. [14]
It is foolish for material-minded man to allow vulnerable theories of a mechanistic universe to deprive him of the vast spiritual resources of true religion. [15]
See also: UB 195:6-7.