bookmark
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.
read later
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.
An interesting chapter on the contrast between Hebraism and Hellenism can be found in "Irrational Man" by Wm Barrett.
But frankly, I grow tired and weary of this material. I know some version that includes the Holy Bible's account is the truth. Why do we think our primary mission here on Earth includes "proving" articles of faith. It's impossible! Anyone who has not made the "leap of faith" after studying the beautiful symmetry and complexity of life is ignoring the obvious. Nothing I can do brings home the truth found in the fossil record or, the amazing results of the Human Genome Project, even they won't sway a scientific mind or open up for reconsideration the cause of a Creator God. They won't read long posts like yours anyway. We need to back off our rants, IMHO. Save your witness for a time when people are broken down by this difficult life and seeking a new foundation to rebuild upon.
I once spammed these kinds of articles to all my atheist and pagan friends. The result, they won't read my e-mails anymore. They have been totally turned off to anything I might post. How can that be what God expects from me?
I was delighted to realize recently that it has never been our job to build an earthly "shinning city on the hill" and it's not our priority to bring new souls into the kingdom of God. Please don't mistake what I'm saying; we do need to be ready with our witness and we do need to be ready to lead people in the Sinners Prayer, but God does all of the preparatory work necessary for salvation. Our current mission in this New Testament era is encouragement of other believers and glorifying God. Remember, God the Father causes mens hearts to grow hungry for truth, only then do sinners begin looking for eternity. That conviction leads them to seek out Jesus Christ the Son. Jesus the Son makes it possible for reconciliation between a holy, righteous God and a totally broken and sinful man.
Maybe knowing this will help you handle your frustration with the fallen scientific community Osgoode? I know it has helped me back off and let God work His Will on family members and other people I love.
In Christ,
DrMike
It’s funny watchign ‘scientists’ like Dawkins try to explain away people’s belief in God by claiming the belief is brought on by nothign but a virus that can be spread by sneezing and caughing- Dawkins tried to claim that only ignorant, less evolved people were susceptible to htis virus caused belief in God.
With statements liek that, me thinks it’s not the religious folks who are ignroant ‘less evovled’
Improvement of Man. - If the stock of domesticated animals can be improved, it is not unfair to ask if the health and vigor of future generations of men and women on the earth might not be improved by applying to them the laws of selection.Eugenics. - When people marry there are certain things that the individual as well as the race should demand. The most important of these is freedom from germ diseases which might be handed down to the offspring. Tuberculosis, that dread white plague which is still responsible for almost one seventh of all deaths, epilepsy, and feeble-mindedness are handicaps which it is not only unfair but criminal to hand down to posterity. The science is of being well born is called eugenics.
- Hunters Civic Biology (the textbook at the centre of the Scopes Trial)