We cannot choose to serve God and the World at the same time. Scientific laws are brief formulas representing complex relationships between many phenomena. Their discovery is the work of a creative but disciplined imagination; they are products of the human mind. An external object is a construct; a combination of immediate with past or stored sense-impressions. The distinction between real objects and imaginary ones is that only the real objects depend upon immediate sense impressions. There is a fundamental distinction between perception, the physical association of stored sense impressions, and conception, their mental association. This means that perception is merely the copresentation of impressions, while conception is the recognition of relations. However, the physical and the psychical differ only in degree with relations between sense impressions, although from different standpoints. On the whole, human brains work in the same way, and thus one receives the same sense impressions and forms the same constructs as another. This ensures the universal validity of science. The field of study of the various sciences is, in fact, immediate sense impressions; these are the phenomena which scientific laws relate, so that the field of science is much more consciousness than an external World. The consciousness of others is established by an argument from analogy. #RandolphHarris 1 of 7

We tend to project our sense impressions and to regard them as existing externally to and independently of ourselves, but this is a mistake. The distinction between external and internal is arbitrary and no more than a practical convenience. It is based on distinguishing between the classes of sense impressions, not between sense impression and something else. We cannot assert the existence of causes of sense impressions, but want to leave that open the possibility of such existents. Therefore, we use the term sensation in an unusual way: Sensation is that of which the only knowable side is sense-impression. This is intended to express agnosticism about the causation of sense impressions while allow one to say, “The outer World is for science a World of sensations, and sensation is known to us only as sense-impression.” Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not keeping with a Holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives us, but what God has given us that is being exhibited in our lives. In our day, we are being admonished in the same manner through apostles and prophets. We are to fear the Lord, serve the Lord, put away Worldly gods, and choose whom we will serve. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7

  Whether war is a greater or lesser evil than the present anarchic World, with its attendant threat of war, is something that needs to be considered. There has to be a way to keep the peace in the World, and people seem to look to certain nations to be the protectors of all people. “Many become emotionless because of great length of war,” reports Alma 62.41. The creation of expedients to keep the peace, such as the League of Nations and collective security, is the most urgent task of the twenty first century. Eventually it will be necessary to declare war illegal and to prosecute countries which resort to it as criminals. Peace must be kept by the maintenance of a military, and the superpower must go beyond this and exercise a kind of condominium over the rest of the World. There seems to be no alternative to the World state, which must in the first instance be imposed by one nation or group of nations; only after the World authority has been in power for a century or so will it feel confident enough to base its power on consent rather than force. No one wants to be control by people who do not recognize human rights, freedom, constitutional values, and the right to own property. And if it seems evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7

Some scientific concepts are not of immediate sense impressions; for instance, atom and molecule. There are just two possibilities: Science may regard the atom as real and thus capable of being a direct sense impression, or as ideal and this merely a mental conception of assisting them in formulating laws. In contrast, a metaphysical conception is of what is both real and independent of sense perception. Fearing the Lord means to be reverent and to love God and to keep the Lord’s commandments. We show that we serve the Lord by the way in which we live the commandments received from God, by the work we do to help establish the kingdom of God on Earth, and by the way we act towards our neighbor. Putting away Worldly gods means keeping impure thoughts out of our minds, shedding all hateful feelings from our hearts, and ridding our lives of everything which may present the Holy Ghost from being always with us. The most important commandment is, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. And also, to love your neighbor as yourself,” reports Mark 12.29. There are no commandments greater than these. The Universe is governed day-to-day by rational natural laws, not by the whims of deities. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7

Science is not explanatory but merely descriptive. For instance, Sir Isaac Newton’s law of gravitation is a description in the simplest possible terms of a wide range of phenomena; that is, of the routine of our perceptions. To talk of it as ruling nature is to confuse other sense of law with the scientific sense. Causal statements are records of regular sequences in past experience and cannot assert any necessity in them. Forces, because they are not discoverable in sense experience, cannot be regarded as causes. Force is but a name hiding our ignorance of the explanation of motion. “He (God) stretches out the northern sky over empty space. Suspending the Earth upon nothing,” reports Job 26.7. The idea of necessity is appropriate only to relations between conceptions, not to relations between perceptions. Predictions and knowledge are possible only because we find repetition in our sense impressions. Even so, our knowledge is only probable and should, strictly speaking, be called “belief.” Rivers and springs are fed by water that has evaporated from the oceans and other sources and then has fallen back to Earth as rain snow, or hail. However, the ancient Greeks thought that rivers were fed by underground ocean water, and this is also probable. We have geysers that spit up water from underground, there are underground water tables and aquifers. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7

The mountains rise and fall, and today’s mountains were once under the ocean. “You covered it with deep waters as with a garment. The waters stood above the mountains,” reports Psalm 104.6. The whole of sciences involves the distinction between the perceptual and the conceptual. Scientific concepts generally are ideal limits of concepts originating in perception. This is especially obvious in the mathematical treatment of the World. Empirical space and time are modes of perception. Space is a mental expression for the fact that perceptive faculty has separated coexisting sense impression into groups of associated impressions; time indicates the progression of perceptions at a position in space. Neither space nor time is infinite or infinitely divisible, since each must be limited by our powers of perception and discrimination. Conceptual space and time, and the space and time of mathematics, are idealization of their empirical counterparts and do not suffer from their limitations. Some indicate that the Bible reports that the Universe was created in six days with twenty-four hours in each day. However, according to the Bible, God created the Universe in the indefinite past. Also, the days of creation described in Genesis 1.1 reports that the days of creation were epochs whose length is not specified. In fact, the entire period during which Earth and Heaven were made is also called a day. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7

It is also assumed that vegetation was created before the Sun existed to support photosynthesis. Nevertheless, the Bible shows that the Sun, one of the stars that is the foundation of the Heavens was created before vegetation. Diffused light from the Sun reached the Earth’s surface during the first “day,” or epoch, of creation. As the atmosphere cleared, by the third day of creation, the light was strong enough to support photosynthesis. Only later did the Sun become distinctly visible from the surface of the Earth. Also, the Earth could be 5.6, which would explain the days or epochs, but may not have had human life for billions of years. The aim of science is to construct conceptual models of the Universe, devices to assist us in describing the correlation and sequence of phenomena. The failure to recognize this has led scientists to accept definitions of force, mass, atom, and—in the biological sciences—life which are riddled with metaphysical obscurities. Philosophical reports consist in the empiricist elucidation of these fundamental concepts, in an attempt to remove these obscurities. The person who chooses to follow the Lord and who keeps God’s commandments in his or her weaknesses, knows where the strength is. In our strength, we remain humble. In our poverty, we know what our riches are, and in out prosperity, we remember our people with tenderness. A person who can live this way, without fear or hate but with love, is a happy person. #RandolphHarris 7 of 7