Intelligent Design and Peer Review

Discovery Institute ^ | November 1, 2003 | William A. Dembski

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You point out that hope is active -- that it is energetic -- and so is evil, for that matter. In a certain sense, hope can keep evil at bay. (So to speak.)

Demoralization -- hopelessness -- in the face of desperate problems is ever a victory for evil. In such circumstances, hopelessness itself hands evil the victory; for hopelessness issues from loss of faith and trust (the Latin word for "faith," fides, carries both meanings) in the goodness of God. This is one of evil's chief aims.

The other chief aim is perpetually, incessantly to slander, accuse, and revile man before God Himself: Satan, the Father of Lies, is forever giving God "an earful" on the subject of the malfeasance and banality of man, thereby ceaselessly "bad-mouthing" the goodness of God's creation.

Thank you very much, Dr. J. I don't like demoralization. I don't want it. Let's opt for energy.

As for the bad-mouthing of the goodness of God's creation, especially when it comes to those He has spent the most for, well, there's a lesson for us all there. For me, surely.

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And hope rightly founded is ever the victory over any and every accumulation of evil.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your posts!

So grateful are we X's who accept that math personally, knowing how we exist so utterly defeated otherwise.

So true, unspun!