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“..And your unquestioning faith lies where?” ~ liberallarry

Dawkins also asks stupid questions.

“... If (Dawkins) should ask, “what, don’t you _believe in_ evolution?,” my response would be, “what, don’t you _know about_ God? You’re kidding, right?”

And if he says, “but God is not great,” I would ask, “tell me what you know about God. No, not about what other people say or do. Tell me what you _personally_ know.” To which, if he were honest, he would have to respond, “oh, nothing.”

That being the case, he would be compelled to change the title of his book from “God is Not Great” to “I Know Nothing” — or perhaps “I Am Nothing,” which is what a human being unarguably is in any materialistic paradigm.

To be completely accurate, the materialists must affirm that “I Am Nothing, and So are You,” for in the end, atheism is nihilism, and a nihilist is just an atheist with the courage of his absence of convictions: there is no truth and everything is permitted. ..

“...there is no possible metaphysical grounds for something wholly random, transient and accidental to know the Immutable. Or, if it can know the Immutable, then we must revise our assessment of the transience of this entity, for there is something absolute about it, something which mysteriously touches the eternal, something which cannot be surpassed. In reality, there can be no species above or beyond the human being. It is inconceivable. We are evolutions’s end.

“....Of course there is continuity between animals and human beings, just as there is continuity between matter and life (or humans and God, for that matter).

Nevertheless, there is also a radical ontological discontinuity between matter and life, something “present” in life that could never be seen in its constituent parts.

Naturally, being that we are alive and conscious, we are privileged to bear witness to countless fascinating spiritual hints and clues embedded in, and radiating through, matter, which “looks” at us with its outward forms of inexplicable beauty and “speaks” to us with its extraordinary inner mathematical elegance. But to suggest that this means that matter is just as spiritual as the divine consciousness that contemplates it is basically stupid, just a sort of exalted flatland Spinozean pantheism that is superficially appealing to a certain kind of middlebrow intellect, but ultimately blind to the true hierarchy of being.

In the paradigm of natural selection there can be no absolutes, no end states, no final accomplishments. Everything is a work in progress, minus the progress.

Thus, the inability to explain how natural selection has produced the perfection of the human archetype, something which is an absolute end and cannot be surpassed. Anyone who looks into the eyes of his child realizes this.

Yes, it is hypothetically possible — no, inevitable — that natural selection will continue to tinker at the margins of this archetype, but this archetype cannot surpass itself any more than perfect beauty or absolute truth can surpass itself.

This is what it means to say that human beings are in the image of their creator: that they are in their own way absolute, only in reflected form — as above, so below. Thus, they are absolute, but only relatively so. This makes much, much more sense than the opposite — that we are really reflections of matter, or absolutely relative: as below, so above.

Despite the fact that this preposterously upside down metaphysic makes no sense at all — for how could relativity be absolute without immediately refuting itself? — it is what you must believe in order to be a self-consistent doctrinairre Darwinian.

Let’s be honest: either we are a random, transient, and therefore meaningless organization of molecules, or we descended from something which surpasses us.

Woe to the impoverished soul incapable of intuiting our source and ground in that which surpasses us.

And woer still to the beasts in human form who admit hierarchy but who substitute their own imaginary mind parasites for the reality of the One. ..” ~ Absolute Truth and False Absolutism http://tinyurl.com/2zmcu6

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