By Todd Hayen - May 17, 2025

Oooo, I’ve probably got a few raised eyebrows on this one.

It is a rather bold statement.

Notice, however, I was careful to use the word “meaningless” rather than “useless.” “Usefulness” is usually determined by the intention behind the knowledge or action.

If I want to mend a broken bone, for example, and I learn something about the science behind the act of mending a bone, then the science is “useful”—it was useful in the accomplishment of the intention of mending the bone. If I want to kill a huge number of people with a single blast, the science behind an atomic bomb is “useful.”

But is it meaningful?

Considering my article title, I could have qualified even that statement with “beneficially meaningful,” but then the title would be too long.

So, then you might ask, “beneficially meaningful to whom?”—us (humans), animals, the planet, the universe? I may touch on this dilemma a bit in this article, but that question is more for philosophers and theologians. Briefly, I would say what is beneficially meaningful to any one of these things (humans, other animals, the planet, the universe) is also beneficially meaningful to the others.

To put it in religious/spiritual language, it would then resonate and correlate with God’s plan. And what is God’s plan? I think I know, do you? If you don’t know, ask Him. I don’t think it would be right for me to try to tell you, I could be wrong. Being “beneficially meaningful” to humans, animals, the planet, and the universe certainly correlates with probably the most universal spiritual concept: unity consciousness.

Let me pick apart my article title a bit more, so all of this makes more sense.

Science is usually defined as . . .

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