Posted on 11/19/2024 9:29:20 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific Darwinian materialism. The principal tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world.
The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated mystically animated physical matter pregnant with life from nothing. This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as the human soul, mind, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human consciousness an active principle of grey matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at new.americanprophet.org ...
“Read more at new.americanprophet.org “
No thanks!!
BTW, an analogous materialism, via Hobbes' and Locke's empiricism, is a primary factor in the political philosophy of the American Founding.
The point of both Epicureanism and modern empiricism is that there is no certain, a priori, knowledge of the supreme being or supreme human good. That's why you have a right to pursue your own definition of happiness, but the government has no right to impose its definition of happiness on you, because no elite can demonstratively show what that is.
Two, one two three four
Ev’rybody’s talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.
All we are saying is give peace a chance...................
Peace? With Yoko and her screams? I think not
Most people see the father of materialistic science as Democritus, a century earlier.
That makes no sense.
Who made the atoms?
God rolled the dice and people came up. That's how leftists got included in the mix.
https://www.bucksafa11.org/2022/09/17/dem-bones/
From https://www.britannica.com/science/cancellous-bone
…Cancellous bone makes up about 20 percent of the human skeleton, providing structural support and flexibility without the weight of compact bone. It is found in most areas of bone that are not subject to great mechanical stress. It makes up much of the enlarged ends (epiphyses) of the long bones and is the major component of the ribs, the shoulder blades, the flat bones of the skull, and a variety of short, flat bones elsewhere in the skeleton.
Cancellous bone is usually surrounded by a shell of compact bone, which provides greater strength and rigidity. The open structure of cancellous bone enables it to dampen sudden stresses, as in load transmission through the joints. Varying proportions of space to bone are found in different bones according to the need for strength or flexibility. Cancellous bone also has a relatively high level of metabolic activity.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-2-22/
I think the scientists ought to check the real odds they're facing before they try to convince the people to continue rolling against dem bones.
From https://www.icoi.org/glossary/cancellous-bone/">
…Cancellous bone is a spongy type of bone and is responsible for producing stem cells and blood cells. Because of these incredible properties, cancellous bone is typically used for bone grafts due to its concentration of osteoprogenitor cells and therefore a greater ability to form new bone as compared to cortical bone…
“No thanks!
“That makes no sense.
Who made the atoms?”
Need to read the whole thing. It is good account of history that leads up to a righteous ending you would both like.
In this case your knee jerk firewalls are mistaken.
The end of the article (aaahhh, yes—much better!):
In a speech he delivered in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Coolidge tried to call American’s back to their Christian heritage. He told Americans that the Declaration’s principles of liberty arise from man’s God-given inalienable rights. And these are found, said Coolidge, “in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy…” The clergy preached equality “because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and all the rest of our individual liberties were justified “by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit.” God’s children therefore, have no “superiors;” there are no modern-day “divine rights kings” who possess “any right to rule…over them.” Americans are free to choose their own leaders.
The Declaration, continued Coolidge, is “a great spiritual document.” Its principles are not material but spiritual. “Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements we can see and touch. They are ideals(whose) source and roots (are) in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world.”
President Coolidge cautioned Americans that, “unless the faith of the Americans in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we abandon the cause.”
Coolidge ended his speech with a stark warning, “We must not sink into a pagan materialism…” (Back Fired, William Federer, pp. 269-271)
Ideas have consequences, but worldview ideas can have tremendous consequences for good—humanity, freedom, and rights—or for evil– aggregates of matter, slavery, and genocide.
This nation was founded on Christian presuppositions that allowed for the most enlightened, freest civilization in the history of the world. The usurpation of our founding worldview by Progressivism’s evil matter in motion worldview, the so-called scientific Darwinian materialist worldview, is sending our homeland over the edge of the abyss into hell.
Linda Kimball
Our Founders unfortunately failed to include this last little bit:
Christ is King.
Linda Kimball.
I can’t tell you how many efforts to address subjects of interest I abandoned (not more than three ;^) for sure) after I came across the name Linda Kimball who addressed them first and much, much better. Thanks.
See... Can’t be too quick on the firewalls or you might lose out on some great hidden nuggets. :)
Yeah...was just being lazy actually.
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