RE: The Never-Addressed reasons that lead me to Atheism
August 20, 2018 at 2:51 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2018 at 2:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 20, 2018 at 12:02 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(August 19, 2018 at 12:19 pm)robvalue Wrote: They accept it, but don't properly understand it.
Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Ken Miller understand evolution probably better than anyone here on this forum, and they are both practicing Christians. And I don't think their acceptance is rife with caveats, or using novel definitions of common language.
Two does not a plenty make.
I wish that plenty would follow their lead..but, to the plenty, those guys are heretics.
Though...on that note......
Quote:EXPLOREFAITH: You have said that DNA is “God’s language.” Do you mean that in a literal, or more metaphorical, sense?http://www.explorefaith.org/faces/my_fai...cience.php
FRANCIS COLLINS: A little of both. I believe that the universe was created by God with the specific intention of giving rise to intelligent life. Given that we observe DNA to be the information molecule of all living things, one can regard therefore it as the “Logos” that God has used to speak life into being. Don’t misunderstand me, it is clear that the process of evolution by natural selection over hundreds of millions of years is the “how” that explains the marvelous diversity of life. But that doesn’t provide the answer to “why.” I think God provides that answer.
so..you know...meh-ish......perhaps someone could find the hundreds of millions of years long campaign of intentional creation in evolutionary theory that collins is referring to, here, for me? Collins, brilliant as he is..believes in evolution™.
IMO, it takes a brilliant mind to square that business away so neatly. The dummies can't manage it, so they're always in a state of, "durr, where are the crocoducks? Checkmate atheist!".
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