Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: OBAFGKM
If you are going to teach results of two hundred years painstaking research by hundreds of thousands of scientists highly trained in a multitude of disciplines, then you have to teach what I heard last week in Sunday school.

On the other hand, you could teach;

That the world is so full of living things that after a few thousand years those highly trained and dedicated multitudes have been unable to count them all.

And that even the simplest of these living things is so staggeringly complex that all of our own wonderful intelligence has not come anywhere close to being able to understand it, let alone duplicate it.

And, that the odds of such an inconceivably large number of unimaginably complex things having occured due to random processes is so far out of the bounds of probability, that it is very difficult to express just how far out of bounds they are. The numbers are so large, there is nothing in the universe to compare them to. Not even the number of sub atomic particles in the entire universe.

And, that the number of people who have personally experienced the truth of a Creator in there own lives number in the Billions, and spans many thousands of years.

And, that a large majority of the most respected intellects in history are counted among them, scientists and all, to this very day.

And, that because of all of this, their (the students) own lifes actually do have meaning and purpose.

So, when life get really hard, as it does at times for all, they have a means available to cope with it other than absolute hopeless, meaningless anguish.

And, that contrary to what Hollywood and liberals would have them believe, people of faith have done immeasurably more good for humanity than harm.

371 posted on 05/30/2002 9:33:04 PM PDT by GSHastings
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: GSHastings
And, that the odds of such an inconceivably large number of unimaginably complex things having occured due to random processes is so far out of the bounds of probability, that it is very difficult to express just how far out of bounds they are. The numbers are so large, there is nothing in the universe to compare them to. Not even the number of sub atomic particles in the entire universe.

Somebody who put his mind to it might could devise a proof that the odds against evolutionism are uncountable, as opposed to merely infinite.

373 posted on 05/30/2002 10:06:28 PM PDT by medved
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 371 | View Replies ]

To: GSHastings
On the other hand, you could teach; [snip]

Most of what you posted would be a fine lesson for Sunday school; the world is a facinating place.

But none of what you posted-- not one thing-- has anything to do with the validity of the theory of evolution or science in particualar.

412 posted on 05/31/2002 7:47:33 AM PDT by Condorman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 371 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson