Humans are the only species that evolved with a neurological capacity for mystical thought. Mysticism is at the core of wonderment. As long as humans continue ask “how” and “why”, arrive at their own conclusions without coercion or retribution, however right or wrong, progress and civilization will continue.
Darwin was a great thinker and had significant insights. He himself , like Copernicus, Tycho Brache and Galileo did not deny the existence of God. His work however was commandeered by the atheists who were a growing branch of the Enlightenment and very heavily concentrated in academic settings.
Every Christian who has met Jesus in a real and personal way knows without a moment’s hesitation that God is absolutely, positively real.
Darwin has been used. The evolutionary theory is just a small sample of his work yet it is deemed to be correct in order to deny God.
Why are his writings concerning certain races of people to be savage or sub-human not ever mentioned?
"however right or wrong," ???
'Philosophers' and pundits might be able to get away with "however right or wrong," for a while.
Engineers, airplane pilots, etc? Naaa.... "however right or wrong," will catch up with your very quickly!
BTW, eternal life in Christ begins the moment you decide to CHOOSE His way, not your own. You do not have to wait until you die to begin.
Charles Darwin became fairly adamant about the lack of divine plan in the workings of nature. He would say, “There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.” He would be so bold as to write, “gradually [I] came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation,” and that he could “hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true . . . this is a damnable doctrine.”Darwin wrote, “My theology is a simple muddle; I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.” A year earlier, he wrote to Asa Gray,
“There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice. Not believing this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed… I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.”
- Shadow of Oz
is time real or just the way we measure changes?
Like the spread of an illness throughout your body.
Do we measure it in time because it’s what we know or is it just a series of events unfolding?
I assume there is such a thing as time :)
The bulk of the Professoeiat seems to believe that Mankind is God and that the Liberal Intelligentsia is God’s Brain.