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Telescopes and Theodicy
Townhall.com ^ | May 19, 2019 | Marvin Olasky

Posted on 05/19/2019 5:55:15 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/19/2019 5:55:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Islam is dark matter personified.


2 posted on 05/19/2019 5:59:45 AM PDT by abclily
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Dark matter and energy is dark only because nothing emitted from it is in visible light. All creation is the work of God, and evil is the malfunctioning of the will that God gave us. Is it a specific Devil? Or is it a un corporeal random force that is not even a consciousness. In the end He will judge all souls here on Earth and elsewhere in the Universe who minds He developed to conceive Him.


3 posted on 05/19/2019 6:12:38 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: Kaslin

I think the article makes a good point that there is so very much that mankind simply doesn’t know. It takes a great deal of audacity to claim God doesn’t exist.


4 posted on 05/19/2019 6:12:46 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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The idea that mankind can control or “fix” the weather is a mockery of God. To think that we can control the wind is ludicrous. We can use the force of wind in sails and windmills. We can pipe it and change the temperature in confined areas but when the wind blows in a hurricane or tornado forget about control. Being humble in the presence of God is the correct position to take. Not giving Him respect is the opening the Devil needs. All of the great scientists like Newton were very aware that they were discovering the wonders of His creation and giving credit. The present day method is to elevate humans to a higher position than God and trying to prove that reality is just an accident.


5 posted on 05/19/2019 6:34:04 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.


6 posted on 05/19/2019 6:36:49 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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‘They wrote about princeps tenebrarum, the Prince of Darkness.’

not to nit pick (well, yes it is to nit pick) but that should be ‘princeps tenebrae’; ‘tenebrarum’ is plural, darknesses...


7 posted on 05/19/2019 6:50:46 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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‘It takes a great deal of audacity to claim God doesn’t exist.’

not really; it is no more, no less than the belief that He does...and at any rate, any thoughtful commentator on the subject does not make ‘claims’...


8 posted on 05/19/2019 6:57:29 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.

That would be a great tagline!

oh wait...

9 posted on 05/19/2019 7:18:04 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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“That would be a great tagline!”

In the universe of taglines?


10 posted on 05/19/2019 7:59:37 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: equaviator

Indeed...


11 posted on 05/19/2019 8:02:08 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: IrishBrigade

No true Scotsman...


12 posted on 05/19/2019 8:18:13 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: Kaslin

The universe is accelerating.

Movement is distance/time. What if our assumption that time is constant is wrong?

As for God’s intervention in the universe, I believe God works within the laws He has established and will not break them (I Am the Lord thy God, I change not). He will use His omnicience to determine what is possible within the law and do it He sees fit.


13 posted on 05/19/2019 8:27:35 AM PDT by seowulf
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To: abclily

Islam is dark matter personified.


That might be a poor analogy:

We are baryonic matter and are just a fraction of the total mass of the universe. We are like the froth bubbles on a head of beer in a very large beer stein.


14 posted on 05/19/2019 8:33:24 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Beer is proof that God loves us.
Sharia is proof that Allah hates us.


15 posted on 05/19/2019 8:52:32 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: Kaslin
We might say what does not kill us makes us stronger, but what about all those who die suddenly without the opportunity to learn lessons? What about hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes that kill both innocent and guilty? What about diseases that take the lives of children? What about the scale of disaster? Six million Jews gassed or shot in the Holocaust, along with 6 million others? Tens of millions in China, the Soviet Union, Cambodia, and elsewhere? Tens of thousands year after year in Syria, Yemen, and other venues of war. Why so many, Lord?

Piffle.

Over 60 MILLION have been CHOICED to death;

just in the USA.

16 posted on 05/20/2019 10:05:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: HighSierra5
To think that we can control the wind is ludicrous.
 
 

Job 42:1-6

 

1  Then Job replied to the Lord:

2 “I know that you can do all things;
    no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.

4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
    I will question you,
    and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
    but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”


17 posted on 05/20/2019 10:11:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: equaviator

Taglines: All the way down...


18 posted on 05/20/2019 10:12:52 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: seowulf
The universe is accelerating.

I know MINE is!

The days are flying by faster and faster.

19 posted on 05/20/2019 10:18:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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"Dark Matter" has been solver, but MSS (main stream science) has been slow to accept it.

Hydrogen and Hydrinos


20 posted on 05/20/2019 10:39:24 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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