"Addressing the idea that time plus chance could have created life, Sir Fred Hoyle said, 'Now imagine 10 to the 50th blind persons (that's 100,000 billion billion billion billion billion people - standing shoulder to shoulder, they would more than fill our entire planetary system) each with a scrambled Rubik cube and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling (random variation) of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order."Now, I'm no uninformed fundamentalist fanatic (well, maybe a fanatic), but Darwinian evolution is one of the most bizarre ideas to ever be proffered to mankind. The words above speak of a concept called "irreducible complexity". In a general sense, this means that in order for a system to operate, all of its constituent parts must be present, and these parts must have been present at its inception.
"Life" is complex at a mind-boggling scale. That's not just a layman's viewpoint. Scientists from all disciplines marvel at the wonders of the world around us. Yet, strangely, in the face of all this wonder and complexity and marvelous design, many still attempt the mental (or philosophical? logical? moral?) gymnastics to explain it all with evolutionary theory.
Why deny God? The true creationist (a class which includes many prominent men and women from all areas of science as well as lay people) doesn't dumb down the universe or refuse to investigate the world using the scientific method. The creationist is fascinated by the complex, awesome nature of, well, Nature, and marvels at the intricate design engineered by an intelligent Creator. Creationists come to the end of study and take the logical step towards attributing this massive, marvelous creation to a Creator instead of the strange, nonsensical leap toward denial of God in favor of evolutionary theory.
Why deny God? The true creationist (a class which includes many prominent men and women from all areas of science as well as lay people) doesn't dumb down the universe or refuse to investigate the world using the scientific method. The creationist is fascinated by the complex, awesome nature of, well, Nature, and marvels at the intricate design engineered by an intelligent Creator. Creationists come to the end of study and take the logical step towards attributing this massive, marvelous creation to a Creator instead of the strange, nonsensical leap toward denial of God in favor of evolutionary theory.
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The more I talk with people the more I find that it's not that they don't believe in God, it's that they don't want to believe in God. It is like they believe that once they make the statement, "I believe in God", that they will have to drastically change their lives.
It's like the struggling alcoholic that is in denial. I believe that a good portion know that they have the problem, but once they say it out loud everything will change. If I say I am an alcoholic then I have to do one of two things: Get help or choose to keep drinking.
I think that there is some similarities with a belief in God and, honestly, the church needs to take some responsibility for that.
We, the church, tend to focus on the 'rules' of believing in God rather than the relationship itself.
How different would all this look if it was all about developing that relationship with God and letting the Holy Spirit do His job (or "Her" job if you read "The Shack" :) )
Great article BlaineMonster! Thanks for making us think.
Hey you're right on about not wanting to believe in God. It's kinda like how we (well, me) often run off and hide when we (me again) get tangled up in sin instead of facing God. It's denial plain and simple! Confession truly is good for the soul. :) U R the greatest, Johnny O!
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