Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: January 22, 2016 06:42AM
pbxguy – When I used the word “fact” it was more of a figure of speech intended to convey what most Christians would understand Jesus had said about himself. Obviously I touched a sore spot in your belief system. To suggest that “the Bible has failed to stand up to scientific scrutiny in almost every instance” is also an opinion and not a fact. A couple of books you might consider reading are “The Case For Christ – A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus” by Lee Strobel and “God’s Undertaker – Has Science Buried God” by John Lennox - if you are willing to have your worldview challenged. Unfortunately, facts do not change the lens through which you view the facts – that’s a heart or spirit issue and as the New Atheists would have you believe, we don’t even have a spirit. In spite of reading “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, I’m still a Christ follower – sorry. Actually, TLWF (so I at least mention it) was a much rougher struggle than Dawkins.
Here’s what I mean by a lens: if a scientist observes stick figures on a cave wall, it is conclusive evidence of intelligent design and not natural selection. If the same scientist observes a 3.5 billion letter sequence in the human genome, it is evidence of natural selection and not intelligent design. I didn’t buy a single lottery ticket for a 1.5 billion dollar prize because in all my intelligence I did not think I could come up with the right 5 numbers in any order, much less the right 3.5 billion letters in a particular sequence. Fortunately, natural random selection is way more intelligent than I am. The fact that we are here is “proof” to the scientist – good luck repeating it as true science says is necessary for the scientific process.
I look at the same information and conclude there was an obvious input of information from the outside of evolution or a Creator - evidenced by the fact we are here and the mathematical odds for the human genome coming into existence by natural selection alone exceed the number of atoms estimated to be in the entire universe. And further, what are the odds this happened on the first try and if not, where are all the random mistakes (not counting Trump)? Same facts, different lenses and different conclusions. The scientist is “Bright”, as the New Atheists like to call themselves, and I’m just a religious idiot who refuses to look at the facts – at least in their belief system. I would suggest neither are true. By the way, the head of the human genome project started out an atheist and ended up a Christian. There are plenty of Christians that love science and plenty of scientists that love Christianity – in spite of what Dawkins may tell you, they are not mutually exclusive.