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To: T'wit
Oh, on the point of affirmation I heartily agree.

I was studying biochemistry this summer and got up to how the simple cell feeds itself. Perhaps I covered about 70-80 pages of text. In almost every other paragraph the authors wrote about the 'miracles of nature', how wondrously nature remembers the good protein structures and discards the duds, miraculosuly this combination of amino acids were selected. How nature cleverly uses the same plan over again. And many other equally contradictory comments were sprinkled through the text. The authors were screaming there is plan and purpose, a blue print, a designer, an intelligence that chose the correct path. But because of the absolute ban on giving any credence to the teleological proof of a creator they were forced to resort to the inanities I mentioned. I was tempted to write a short pamphlet using these paragraphs right from the text and replacing G-d in a side by side comparison. But I realized that those who have the benefit of seeing the wonders more clearly than anyone else, those masters of the subject, are the ones who would ridicule the effort the most. The ones who are blessed to witness G-d's infinite wisdom are capable of herculean contortions of self-blinding belief in sciencism. Perhaps I still should do it.

51 posted on 02/16/2002 6:25:02 PM PST by rebdov
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To: rebdov
> Perhaps I still should do it.

Not until you're clear of the place! You can jeer them all you wish when you are safely out of their reach. Just reflect on these matters, as you are, and absorb lessons your teachers never intended.

My lesson would be, those who deny G-d end up worshiping whatever they put in His place -- Science, Natural Selection, The Party, sex, drugs, power, canasta. Clearly, we are G-d driven, and surely this was what He intended. No substitute G-d can claim to be good or put a moral dimension into the universe. Therefore, substitutes can neither explain the moral hunger we find within ourselves nor urge us to good behavior. In the end, they explain nothing.

63 posted on 02/16/2002 10:24:40 PM PST by T'wit
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