Not to rain on the parade, but don't you think this is a little short-sighted? It's great that he's standing up for what he believes, and he did give a strong testimony of his beliefs in God on national television, but I can't ignore the fact that he is ignoring the facts!
The creation (by God) is a fact. It doesn't need proving, probably can't be proven to the satisfaction of discrete scientific observation, but is a fact nonetheless that I believe in. I think the creation makes sense, and the probabilities without a God present don't leave much room for our existence. That's not what I'm contesting, and anyone who discounts the creation of the world (and the universe) by God is ignorant and probably doesn't want to know the real truth anyway.
Evolution is also a fact. I like to think of myself as a scientist. Some people don't believe in empirical observation and scientific thought over religion, but I say that if God uses them then they're good for me too! In the end, to be like God, we'll all need to use our brains and depend on our own rational thought as an epistemological basis for all our actions. I think that becoming a God is to have a discerning ability to make correct choices and a large enough knowledge base to know they are correct. In God's case, this covers the domain of all truth, which is the very thing that makes God all-powerful. His knowledge includes physics, chemistry, genetics, mathematics, and every other domain known and unknown to man. He lives by a higher law, because he is acquainted with a higher law. God created the universe based on higher laws of physics than man has yet comprehended, and his power comes from his obedience to those laws, just as an airplane defies the law of gravity by obeying laws of aerodynamics and fluid dynamics.
Evolution and God don't contradict each other at all. Evolution does not mandate that we descend from primates as suggested by the senator and a host of other people. Evolution occurs today and can be verified scientifically. God used evolution as another tool in the creation process. Don't fight against the truth, or you'll have the whole universe fighting back!
If the senator had said something along the lines of, "I believe that evolution fits perfectly into the creation story. God's not an idiot, and I don't believe that He would use a shovel if He had heavy machinery at his disposal. God used evolution as a tool in the creation process, and although I can't give you the exact details of how that worked, someday God will be able to give them to me and I will use them to design my own worlds."
If he'd said that, would I have been the only one to vote for him? Maybe. How unfortunate.
No comments:
Post a Comment