Saturday, March 7, 2015

03/07/15

It's very easy, when talking about creation, to conceive of God's part in it as simply getting the ball rolling - as if he were a kind of divine billiard cue, after whose action inexorable laws took over and excused him from further involvement with the balls. But that won't work. This world is fundamentally unnecessary. Nothing has to be. It needs a creator not only for its beginning but for every moment of it's being.
-Robert Farrar Capon, Let Me Tell You Why, The Third Peacock, in the Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology.

Earliest Known Fossil Remains Of Early Human Ancestor Found In Ethiopia


No, Astrobiology Has Not Made the Case for God

Was my jaw formed by time?
Lots and lots and lots of time?
Can enough time turn one single cell into the man who is writing this now?
Can time do that?

I am pulled apart.
My heart says clearly God's love formed this reality
My brain says these scientists must be so smart that I should trust when they say time did it.

I am pulled apart.

If God created this reality then our priorities are love and forgiveness
If time created this reality then our priorities are surviving and prolonging death

If time created us then there is no right and wrong.
Hitler's idea holds as much water as Jesus'
Abortion doesn't have to stop at the womb.
We as a race can abort anyone at anytime.
In fact we could save time by aborting anyone who gets in the way of progress.
Why waste time and money on the weak?

I don't know Brian came down stairs now so I'm distracted and I can't finish these thoughts.

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