Cosmology: The Collapse of the Concept of An Eternal Universe and the Discovery of Creation Physics and Astronomy: The Collapse of the Idea of A Random Universe and the Discovery of the Anthropic Principle Quantum Physics and the Discovery of Divine Wisdom The Natural Sciences: The Collapse of Darwinism and the Victory of "Intelligent Design" Psychology: The Collapse of Freudianism and the Acceptance of Faith Medicine: The Discovery of How "Hearts Find Peace" Society: The Fall of Communism, Fascism, and the Hippie Dream The Movement Toward Religious Morality Conclusion

Another branch of science affected by the collapse of atheist suppositions was medicine.

According to results compiled by David B. Larson and his team at the National Institute for Healthcare Research, a comparison among Americans in relation to their observance of religious duties yielded very interesting results. The risk of arteriosclerotic heart disease for men who attended church frequently was just 60 percent of that for men who were infrequent church attendees; among women, suicide was twice as high among infrequent as among frequent church attenders; smokers who ranked religion as very important in their lives were over seven times less likely to have normal diastolic pressure readings than were those who did not.29

Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine

Secular psychologists generally explain such phenomena as having a psychological cause. In this sense, faith raises a person's morale and contributes to his or her well-being. There may be some truth in this explanation, but if we look more closely, we see something much more dramatic: Belief in God is far stronger than any other influence on one's morale. In comprehensive research on the relationship between religious belief and physical health, Dr. Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School came up with some interesting results. Although he has no religious faith, Benson concluded that faith in God and worship had a far more positive effect on human health than could be observed in anything else. Benson concludes that he has "found that faith quiets the mind like no other form of belief."30

Why is there such a special relation among faith, the human spirit, and the body? Benson, a secular researcher, stated that the human mind and body are "wired for God."31

This fact, which the medical world is slowly beginning to notice, is a secret revealed in the Qur'an: "Only in the remembrance of God can the heart find peace." (Qur'an, 13:28) The reason why those who believe in God, pray to Him and trust in Him are physically and mentally healthier than others is that they behave in harmony with their nature. Philosophical systems opposed to human nature always bring pain, sorrow, anxiety, and depression in their wake.

The basic source of religious people's peace is that they act in order to gain God's approval. In other words, this peace is the natural result of listening to the voice of one's conscience. People who live the morality of religion simply "to be more at peace" or "to be healthier" cannot live according to the morality of religion; those who act with this intention cannot find peace in its true sense. God well knows what people store in their hearts and what they reveal. Peace of mind comes only by being sincere and attempting to gain God's approval. God commands:

So set your face firmly toward the [true] religion, as a pure natural believer, God's natural pattern on which He made mankind. There is no changing God's creation. That is the true religion-but most people do not know it. (Qur'an, 30:30)

In light of these discoveries, modern medicine is starting to become aware of this truth. As Patrick Glynn says, "contemporary medicine is clearly moving in the direction of acknowledging dimensions of healing beyond the purely material."32

29. Ibid., 80-81.
30. Herbert Benson and Mark Stark, Timeless Healing (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 203.
31. Ibid., 193.
32. Glynn, God: The Evidence, 94.