snip: Now, what I find more than passing strange is that, of all the laws and theories discovered and developed by Science, it is only the Theory of Evolution that has inspired so many eminent scientists to conclude that; 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after death exists; 3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists; 4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and 5) human free will is nonexistent. And, remarkably, all this in blatant defiance of their own rules of scientific methodology.
Spirited: Some concepts are better understood when expressed in analogy and symbol. If your points (1-4) were to take the shape of Sauron’s One Ring, the ‘why’s and wherefore’s’ of choices made come into focus.
In fact, Dostoevsky summarized these last days as an ongoing clash between the Man-God (Jesus Christ) and the rebellious god-men—those who have been seduced—and yes, even possessed by-— the (satanic) power of the One Ring. In his summary of the cataclysmic evil that exploded in Russia, he compared it to Gethsemane. The pigs into which the demons went were the revolutionaries.
(Note: It’s in Tolkiens’ ‘Silmarilion’ that Sauron is identified as a second-level fallen angelic being named Melkor. Morgoth is Lucifer.)
I hope this helps.
Morgoth/Melkor could not be conqured by force of arms, and it was the vanity of the rebellious Noldor elves to think they could, Morgoth was only banished to a void beyond the world by the power of the Valar.
The lesson: Not by works is there salvation, but only by the grace of Jesus the Christ, our Lord.
Translation, please, for this tired old literalist. The points are not mine. They are the points (along with the fifth) of William B. Provine, to the wild acclaim of thousands of his fellow scientists (and budding scientists) and of the media.
I take it from your remarks that you view the “last days” (end times?) to be approaching?