On the Issue of Faith
Why are we here? Is there any purpose behind the universe? Those are big questions to which many folk spend their entire lives trying to answer while others just ignore.
Is there any hope in this universe outside of the agency of man? Many think not. I beg to differ.
I believe every human being on this earth was created on purpose and has a role to play on this planet. We are not accidents; we were created on purpose and have a lifetime on this planet to fulfill our destiny. What is that destiny you say? Our job is to purpose to find that out and then to fulfill it.
Science and faith should not been seen as mutually exclusive. After all the fathers and mothers of modern science for the most past were people of faith. Also, most of the greatest artists, musicians, and writers of all time have been people who understood that they were made and that this universe is no accident.
Many may have disagreed as to Who or What this creator is, but they had the honesty and capacity to recognize the intelligence behind the creation. They also had respect with regard to the creator and the creation. Even if they thought He was unknowable they did not mock their Maker by calling Him a "Spaghetti Monster." That's not just irreverent, it's dumb.
What is faith? Faith is assurance. Faith is strong conviction. The best faith is that which is based on evidence but we do not always need evidence to act on our faith. Many times once we stretch out and take the step we find that the evidence presents itself immediately. In the long run, our faith is only as good as the object in which that faith is invested.
We should have faith in good science, but when things leave the realm of science, yet continues to parade itself as that, it needs to be shot down.
Spontaneous generation is a myth. There is not s shred of scientific evidence that even hints at nothing being the creator of anything.
That's non-sense in the highest order. Matter cannot be eternal based on the he second law of thermodynamics alone.
Also information does not come from a vacuum. To discount the possibility of it coming from an intelligent source could hardly be considered objective.
When someone speaks to special creation as being "magical" right off the bat I know that I am dealing with someone who either has not seriously thought about it, is parroting one of their gurus, or does not even know where to begin when considering the supernatural.
Life does not come from non-life but from other life. Creatures do not morph into other creatures. According the very laws of genetics (Gregor Mendel, anyone?) every creature produces after its kind. That also happens to concur with Genesis chapter 1.
Also, anyone who studies genetics knows that the vast majority of mutations are harmful or even fatal to organisms. Even when subjected to intended genetic manipulation, animals remain the same kind, there are no new species created. Time has no factor here and chance has no creative ability whatsoever.
The theory of evolution as it is touted today has its origins in religion and mythology, not science.
The fact of evolution is that populations of living things change over time, both in their genes and in their observable traits. They do not however become different creatures than what they are. They remain the same type.
The theory of evolution refers to scientific explanations of how exactly populations of organisms change over time. Much of the explanations here are the stuff of fairy tales. That's where the plane many times crashes and burns.
To believe that creatures evolved over millions or billions of years genetically mutating in positive adaptations is to believe something that is not only scientifically implausible but quite impossible. Given an infinite amount of time the impossible still remains just that, impossible. Not only impossible, but irrational. I've been there and done that. I even have the T-shirt to prove it.
I was asked about Richard Dawkins on another post. I've read some of his work, listened to seminars and seen him quite a few times on television. I've also read works by Marx, Freud, Huxley, Russell and many others in that vein.
Speaking specifically to Dawkins, I stand by what I've posted elsewhere. He is not scientifically objective, he is biased. He is a biased religious bigot who has an axe to grind with anyone who even hints a belief in a Creator, the possibility of intelligent design being evidenced in the universe, or even the possibility of the existence of the supernatural. Very closed-minded versus scientifically objective. He's one I consider so smart that he's stupid.
Anyone who discounts the possibility of infinite intelligence must believe that they themselves have it. Talk about arrogance. That's why atheism is irrational. Agnosticism makes far more sense than that.
Many folk remain skeptics because they find peace in their skepticism. They don't have to make any decisions that way or come to any conclusions other than those that are pleasing or don't make them feel uncomfortable. Makes it easy to live any way that they want, do whatever they want to do, say whatever they want to say. Total unaccountability. The idea of a moral Creator makes their skin crawl or makes them angry because they know that if He does in fact exist, they are in trouble.
"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even if you only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process."
G.K. Chesterton
I will continue to question and I am very selective as to who's report I am going to believe. We all exercise faith; it's just a matter of where that faith is placed. For me, I don't have time to waste. I'm on a mission.
Thank you for reading,
HN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6R99V-i...PRONG – Beg to Differ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilLiglPg...Deliverance – Pseudo intellectual
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlZtEjtli...Ben Stein Interviews Richard Dawkins
http://www.elyrics.net/read/p/prong-lyri...Lyrics – PRONG – Beg to Differ
http://www.metrolyrics.com/pseudo-intell...Lyrics – Deliverance - Pseudointellectual