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June 11, 2014 at 4:51 am (This post was last modified: June 11, 2014 at 4:54 am by Rampant.A.I..)
Rev, instead of railing against evolution and other widely accepted scientific basics, why not take time to actually read up on and learn what's been discovered by those fields?
In your view, an omnipotent creator built all of this, just for you, and modern science is able to discover not only the methods of creation, but the timeline, and a detailed history of how things came to be as they are now.
You didn't expect a simple, literal explanation, did you?
You believe in a being so advanced, with so much mental capacity that he literally knows EVERYTHING happening in the universe, past, present and future, to which our greatest minds would be but a single sparkling salt crystal on the tip of an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
A being that is timeless to the extent that time is meaningless in even the extreme scales we can barely imagine.
Do you think a being like that literally descended from the heavens, picked up a lump of clay, fiddled with it, blew into it's nostrils, and placed a fully-formed human on earth on the 6th day, a paltry 6000 years ago?
Or do you think if such a being wanted to give the species he created a "Brief History" the biblical creation account might have been overly simplified for Bronze Age primitives, condensed to time periods they could understand, and rendered even more inaccurate, metaphor-laden and steeped in the cultural traditions of the time and place, and worldview of where it was received, and then passed by oral tradition for 130 years, before finally being written down and translated through multiple languages before you read it in our magnificent bastard tongue of English?
Or is it more likely that a being of infinite wisdom knows that, when it comes to ingenuity, no single-method system, no matter how smart the designer can beat educated trial and error for superior development?
Entertain, even for a moment, that what appear to be blind naturalistic processes could very well be the product or a timeless mind, so advanced that each error, species extinction, and and every death of every single member in every phylum that ever existed was meaningful, as that being refined a design?
Do you honestly believe that a being described the way the bible and Jesus refer to it would fiat a mirror into existence, make a bipedal hominid as a finishing touch on the 46 billion light year wide universe before lunch?
Or does it make more sense to you that such a being would create the same kind of creative, inquisitive, curious, thoughtful, playful, flawed, wrathful, vengeful, petty, childish, wonderful mind such a being would itself possess, and do it in such an artfully creative way that we're still unraveling the history of God's method with modern science, with the possibility that our best measurement methods can only turn up evidence of a blind naturalistic process because the most brilliant human minds on the planet cannot see the greater perspective accessible only to God's mind?
Think about how petty and infantile you're being, by clinging to a literal English reading of biblical genesis.
Don't you want to know the extent of God's creation, understand a tiny fraction of the "how," and deepen your faith and connection to God by learning what he has left for human curiosity to discover and stand, paused to wonder wrapt in awe of?
