Posted on 04/01/2009 6:24:14 AM PDT by seanindenver
Some time ago, a highly charged argument was set in motion. It pitted evolution against creationism. One side of this debate relies on scientific inquiry and the other relies on ancient mythological texts.
That's my view. That's what I intend to teach my children.
Yet, I have no interest in foisting this curriculum on your kids. Nor am I particularly distressed that a creationist theory may one day collide with the tiny eardrums of my precocious offspring.
Which brings me to the Texas Board of Education's recent landmark compromise between evolutionary science and related religious concerns in public school textbooks.
The board cautiously crafted an arrangement that requires teachers to allow students to scrutinize "all sides" of the issue. This decision is widely seen as a win for pro-creationists or are they called "anti-evolutionists"?
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So beautifully said, dear brother in Christ!
I wholly agree with both your statements.
What's interesting is that those same chemicals which make up the world around us can come together in certain ways and result in such ethereal characteristics.
The fact that chemicals can see, smell, hear, feel, choose, think, reason, have morals, values, etc. really puts holes in the naturalism philosophy. It just cannot explain any of that.
Well I think it's isn't the chemicals themselves that are doing all these things, but I take your point, dear metmom!
Some biologists do speculate that even unicellular organisms have a sort-of form of primitive consciousness and are capable of learning and choosing. Some physicists attribute a certain degree of "freedom" to atoms....
But what you're talking about is the miracle of inert matter boot-strapping itself into Life. There is simply no naturalistic explanation of any "mechanism" that causes inert matter to boot-strap itself into Life. Because you want to find something, doesn't necessarily mean that it's there to be found in the first place.
Anyhoot, to the naturalists who resist any idea of extra-mundane, non-phenomenal, non-physical influences on the course of events in the world are, to me, observers of the superficial appearance only of the world. They never look at anything deeper than the "image of reality" that they can capture with their five senses (as technically aided), as perceived according to the criteria of man's habituated experiences/notions of (classical, or non-relativistic) space and time.
It's as if their motto is: "If you can't see it, not only is it not there, but it does not exist in the first place."
And that's the kind of thinking that's supposed to give us a "theory of Everything?"
I strongly doubt it. Looks more to me like some men trying to "cut the world down to their size."
Thanks ever so much, dear sister in Christ, for your excellent essay/post!
Well, some people do and obviously THEY don't get the point.
I take your point! LOL! Some people are amazing credulous.
>>We often find the principle of stories in the bible to be true when the details do not match the evidence.
That is my feeling. How could God have explained that there are elements in our bodies we can live without except for super novas or that people who thought in terms of generations needed to think in terms of millions of generations? The bible really did the best it could.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Romans 1:20-32
God's Name is I AM.
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear brother in Christ!
Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
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