Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s Failure – An Essay by John Leake

John Leake, co-author of The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, posted an essay earlier today on Dr. Peter McCollough’s substack page, titled “Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s Failure“. I read it a short while ago and couldn’t wait to share it with our community. Please click on the link and give it a read. It won’t take long to read it, but I’m willing to bet that you will be thinking about it for a while.

Interestingly, today’s Gospel reading was Luke 18:9. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Albert Einstein said that coincidences are God’s way of remaining anonymous. Dr. Einstein, perhaps the greatest physicist of the modern scientific age, got that right, too.

What do John Leake’s essay, Luke 18:9 and Albert Einstein have to do with each other in this context? In a word, Humility. Victor Frankenstein fell prey to hubris, realizing only too late that his attempt at playing God was doomed to failure. John draws parallels between what led to Dr. Frankenstein’s failure and many of the collective and individual challenges we face today. The Pharisee in Luke 18:9 was a caricature of hubris and conceit, convinced of his moral superiority, thanking God for making him so completely superior to his brethren. The tax collector, on the other hand, was completely humble and repentant before God, praying for God’s mercy. ” . . . for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Dr. Einstein, a man gifted with an extraordinary intellect (he composed an independent proof of the Pythagorean Theorem at age 12!), understood the limitations of human abilities and intellect through his life’s work, as he sought to increase his understanding of the mechanics of our Heavenly Father’s Creation. Dr. Einstein – Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Barnard Medal, Matteucci Medal, TIME Magazine Person of the Century, and on, and on – contributed greatly to the field of Quantum Mechanics but became uncomfortable with its evolution. He famously voiced his opposition with a simple and powerful statement: “God does not play dice”. His statement rendered him persona non grata among the Cool Kids in the field, but he stood his ground. He knew he was right.

John Leake’s essay brings this theme to our current public health and social circumstances. There are forces at work in the world that embody the Pharisee’s attitude. What will we do? The Cool Kids think they have all the answers. I’ll go with “God does not play dice.”