Posted on 09/16/2011 1:37:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Professor of Atheism Richard Dawkins grows increasingly shrill. His outbursts include the following, not very recent, but typical:
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
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You can, of course, make any point you like providing you don't care about first premises. One thing which evidently fails to enter Professor Dawkins' mental universe is the idea -- accepted by many scientists -- that the theory of evolution is broadly correct, but as an explanation of life and the human condition it is incomplete.
We know life exists. We also know it had to be created by some process. Biology tells us that that process was evolution. It tells us nothing about what set that process in notion, created the Earth we stand on, or created the universe from some unimaginable pre-Creation state without space or time. The idea that the Universe created itself out of nothing seems somehow unsatisfactory.
Whether the Heaven and the Earth, and human life, was created over 13.2 billion years following the Big Bang, or over six days as a literal reading of Genesis is interpreted as saying, actually does not matter.
Of course I accept evolution. I find the Biblical literalists who claim the Earth was created in six days, and who believe that we are all descended from a couple called Adam and Eve Fell who because they were tempted by a walking, talking snake, tiresome. I am more-or-less aware of the historical reasons why these fundamentalist beliefs took root and persist in some communities.
But this does not mean that evolution explains everything, or that it ought to explain everything.
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Strange but true, dear Mind-numbed Robot!
God — Truth — simply transcends all our human imaginings.
BTW, I really warm to your insight that God is Verb, and His Creation Nouns. In Genesis, God gave Adam the privilege of naming all the creatures He made. Of course, names are nouns....
To me this is evidence that God views man as somehow His partner....
Is God a constant? Did God create man in his image? Or is God himself somehow evolving through our experiences and insights?
He probably looks down and says... “No way I evolved from them thugs! No way!”
I’m just tossing out questions here, no reason for anyone to get bent!
My understanding is that God IS absolutely self-subsistent, unchanging and eternal Being.
And He made us in His image (i.e., as having reason and free will).
Our understanding of God may "evolve" (as He prompts it). Indeed, that's what the fides quaerens intellectum is all about.
But His essential Being, and His Nature, are "constant"; that is, not in any way, shape, or form dependent on our "evolving" experiences and insights.
This is my understanding.
God's Name is I AM.
If God is unchanging, we have nothing to contribute, we can neither please him or disappoint him. What need or want would he have for us?
There's no way we can "please" or "disappoint" Him, because He already knows who we are, and knows what we are thinking even before we do.
He knows who and what we are "in our hearts," from first to last.
He does not need any "contribution" from us to be Who He IS.
As to "What need or want would he have for us?" — He wants relationship with His sons, who He made out of love, for love.
This is my understanding.
If God is unchanging, we have nothing to contribute, we can neither please him or disappoint him. What need or want would he have for us?
Keep in mind that God is Spirit, Energy. God is Love, Truth, and Light (Illumination). Did He create our Spirit in His image? Yes! Is that Love, Truth, and Light constant? Yes!
Is God constant? Constant can mean several things. God is faithful in His promises to man. Is He rigid? Only in that Justice is rigid. God created the Universe in a way that we punish and reward ourselves. Is that constant? Well, it is predictable.
Can we please or disappoint God? What is Love? That is your answer.
Pray earnestly and ask for God's guidance. You will get it.
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