I like to watch PBS on Wednesday night. There is "Nature," "Nova" and usually some other neat science show. I call it "Nature Night" and everyone knows that I don't do anything on Wed. night because it is Nature Night.
I have noticed something. The science types are using the word "evolution" less and they are using "adapted" and go on to explain that the - animal, bird, earthworm - desired to change or improve something and they "adapted" the change. As if the hedgehog actually willed his tail to grow just that much longer because he needed it to be that much longer.
Occasionally, they do use the word "created" which makes me do a mental double take. But, if they use the word "evolved" more than three times my better half gets to hear me scream at the TV.
Voltaire and all his pals did all they could to move our minds away from faith in God and only have us rely on reason. The thing is that we need both Reason and Faith. Reason explains the what, and Faith explains the why. We need the why.
I disagree. Faith offers nothing in the way of explanation. Explanation, after all, lies in the domain of reason.
Faith does perhaps offer MEANING, so much as we may understand either faith, or meaning.
Thank you for your kind words, but I notice you didn't respond in any way to the point I was making, which is that the elite constantly shift between scientific materialism and "indigenous" mysticism based on what they happen to be discussing at the moment.
Just why do you (and so many others) assume that "reason" means that the events in the first eleven chapters of Genesis could not have happened exactly as written? That's not "reason." That is naturalism. Reason tells me that it is ridiculous to inject current physical phenomena into the process of creation (when the phenomena did not themselves exist but were themselves in the process of being created). Reason also tells me it is hypocrisy in the extreme to want to deconstruct Genesis while interpreting such things as the "virgin birth" literally. Funny how none of the theistic evolutionists who love to speculate on "what really happened" during Creation never speculate on how Mary was fertilized or gave birth without fertilization. No sir; that's a "miracle." But Genesis? Couldn't have happened! We all know that such things don't happen, which means they never have! So I suppose virgins give birth and dead people come back to life every day???