Posted on 12/18/2006 8:12:55 AM PST by SJackson
Really its not so difficult; they celebrate their own Perfectability; their ability to achieve godhood by their own bootstraps. That is why they prop up evolution; they wish to believe that all is improving, rather than decaying as is evidenced by everything around us.
“If I knew God I’d be Him.”
Though it seems from the first few seconds of the creation event when nuclear strong and weak forces, the latter of which electromagnetism segregated from, and somehow also therein gave rise to gravitation, from which there gradually coalesced various galactic types and structures.
And as we live in one spiral galaxy out of billions, two thirds of the way out from its dense center between whirling arms which are relatively debris and dust free; where metals are fairly well concentrated, but rarer in the Milky Way’s outer reaches…. Where too, were we further in, we wouldn’t be able to see the universe outside.
That we live in the habitable zone of a single G2V star, in a system with a large outer planet to sweep up a considerable amount of debris that might otherwise be drawn to the inner solar system and collide with Earth.
That we have a magnetic field which protects us from too much cosmic and solar radiation, and allows us too – geometrically by the more distant stars – to navigate around our planet.
That we have a moon massive enough to stabilize our planetary axis, and which perhaps also couples gravitationally to assist plate tectonics in recycling our oceanic crust and mantle, yielding a balance of nitrogen/oxygen and carbon dioxide to our atmosphere.
That the laws of physics at both the macro- and micro levels should be so fine tuned - and unified! - allowing these processes to be carried out at all.
That we are alive!
It seems inconceivable that there isn’t that God who – being God sets the values of good and evil, and cares that we should prefer that Good.
I'll take Pascal's Bet, thanks.
If I had a cure for cancer, I'd want to share it with people. This is not much different in the Christians eyes. One cure takes care of physical death, the other cure takes care of spiritual death.
If you truly believed that someone without Christ was going to hell for eternity when they died, wouldn't you want to warn them? And really, what kind of Christian would they be if they DIDN'T warn others?
I can appreciate that some people's approach is less than desirable. I've been on the receiving end myself and so understand the offense taken. At that point, I guess you just have to figure some people don't have much in the way of people skills. But don't discount the message because of the messanger. There's too much at stake.
Not fair....this title.
I'm a conservative, evangelical pastor and retired Army chaplain, and I guarantee you that the atheists I've run across have all been on the intelligent side.
I think they're wrong, but I don't think they're "dim-witted" by any means.
That's one reason I'm interested in talking to them and discovering those on whom God has written the word "Christian," and they just don't know it yet.
Dawkins, I think, is into his "shtick." I think he goes overboard for attention and money. Apparently, he succeeds.
Bravo! - You have therein captured the essence of Evolutionism.
Only to idiots who throw over the benefits of modern science, such as medical advances, simply because it interferes with their religious worldview.
Of course, YMMV.
No one stormed off in a huff. However, the loss of so many folks with scientific knowledge and training from FR is appalling.
PhDs in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Math, Astrophysics, Computer Science, etc.
Huge loss to FR.
No, the folks to whom I refer are those who basically condemn everyone who does not believe exactly as they do -- and condemn them in a loud and public manner. Anyone who has been on a Religion Forum thread, or any of the science threads here knows exactly the person to whom I am referring.
Lighten up, Francis.
LOL!! Nice one!
LOL!
That works for me too.
But whatever happened to Opie? He's gotten weird in his old age. ;)
Neither can the mere injection of God into the question, for it is contrary of the nature of God as he has made himself known. God is not a passive, lassez-faire creator; he has declared his love for all of us,and never given any indication of a willingness to discard billions of generations of evolving, almost, but not good enough beings until Adam arrived on the scene, nor is Adam himself good enough; he sinned.
They drift towards Hedonism.
Indeed. I know many like that, too. The Holier-Than-Thou types one encounters in one's daily business have done more to turn folks off to religion than anything cooked up by the most scheming concept of Satan.
I give it about 90-95%.
Amen.
The ACLU got a hold of him!
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