Posted on 01/21/2009 6:59:33 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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Haeckelogical ping!
All these evolutionary theories and yet man possesses Imagination and a Conscience. Imagination is by far one of the most significant ways in which we reflect the Image of God. In imagination we possess the ability to create entire non exsistent universes of possibilities merely by thinking, a reflection of God’s ability to create the universe out of nothing. Conscience, in evolutionary terms, is theoretically not possible. In evolution if you don’t use it you lose it. Conscience is something that motivates moral behavior, which in many contexts implies one to make sacrifices as it would be wrong to do otherwise. Because of the active presence of conscience in the world we live in it is intellectually impossible for evolution to be true.
Not so. It was natural that the two co-existed for a long time, as evidenced by many of the great scientists that proceeded him.
The current vehemence of the opposition between science and Christianity is unnatural and contrived. It was contrived by those who have a bone to pick with God and found a useful weapon to use in their desire to destroy Christianity.
And some are still falling for it.
What’s funny about the modern anti-Christian left is that they think they are SO enlightened in their “reason”...
yet their arguments have been around for centuries, and are nothing new, nothing enlightened.
For proof, in Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan states exactly what we are seeing here - ridicule of believers because of their “ignorance and want of understanding in all natural science”. This was written 3 1/2 centuries ago.
Doesn't all the stuff in this insane Haeckel rant (the whole book is like this) sound familiar? I mean, doesn't Haeckel sound exactly like some of the evolution-talking atheists that post on forums?
1 Corinthians 1:18-24
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
It's interesting how, in an effort to demonstrate their rational superiority, they seem to lose their minds, like at this point in Haeckel's essay:
"The statement of the apocryphal gospels, that the Roman officer, Pandera, was the true father of Christ, seems all the more credible when we make a careful anthropological study of the personality of Christ. He is generally regarded as purely Jewish. Yet the characteristics which distinguish his high and noble personality, and which give a distinct impress to his religion, are certainly not Semitical; they are rather features of the higher Arian race, and especially of its noblest branch, the Hellenes. Now, the name of Christ's real father, "Pandera," points unequivocally to a Greek origin; in one manuscript, in fact, it is written "Pandora." Pandora was, according to the Greek mythology, the first woman, born of the earth by Vulcan and adorned with every charm by the gods, who was espoused by Epimetheus, and sent by Zeus to men with the dread "Pandora-box," containing every evil, in punishment for the stealing of divine fire from heaven by Prometheus."Reminds me of Dan Brown, Gandy and Freke, Kersey Graves, Frazer, Acharya S, and, of course, the Nazis.
Yea! And they eventually get around to insulting anyone who questions them.
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This whole essay is absurd. First he talks about how there were 40 different Gospels that said all sorts of things, then he picks just one of them as proof that Jesus’s dad was a Roman soldier.
Well, that, and the absurd racial sterotyping.
And the evos rant about themselves being rational with a background to their belief system like this?
Application of Godwin’s law is just a way to shut down a conversation.
It’s no different from minimalizing what Hitler did. Fact is, what Hitler did was huge, even by historical standards. There have been many, many mass murderers in history, but what the nazis did was beyond them all.
Is that still going to be a subject of conversation 60 years later? I should damn well hope so. Is it still going to be a cultural reference point, a hard rock at which we say “this opitimizes evil; we define evil by this”? Again, I should damn well hope so.
To hell with messr Godwin, and his evil-minimalizing law.
An interesting chapter on the contrast between Hebraism and Hellenism can be found in "Irrational Man" by Wm Barrett.
So is Godwining.
Oh I agree, I just posted a knee-jerk Godwin picture.
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