Are we - Imagio Dei, created by God, made in His image as stated in Genesis or are we imagio goo with no more significance than a grown up germ; a meaningless accident of time and chance and goo? Here are three quotes from people who ardently reject the idea of God being our Creator who designed our amazing world and filled it with abundantly diverse life.
"Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose" - Richard Dawkins in his book "The Blind Watchmaker"
"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed but rather evolved" - Francis Crick, the discoverer of DNA double helix
"I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, and now small trifling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick." - Charles Darwin from "The Life Letters of Charles Darwin" - letter written to Asa Gray dated 3 April, 1860
Imagio Dei or imagio goo. It changes everything.
Those really are our only two choices, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteI find it so very remarkable that so-called skeptics are willing to believe, to the point of virulently censoring opposition, that a plucky amoeba, or whatever single celled organism lucky enough to always exist or spontaneously generate out of nothing, given enough time, led to all of this.
People who can believe that are not skeptics.
I dare say it takes more faith to believe that our world and all life began from some cosmic accident. The magic wand is 'TIME'. Life bursting forth some Thursday afternoon at 3:00pm from non-life (an absurd proposition) becomes somehow possible when one adds millions and millions of years. This belief has left the realm of science at that point. These believers in CHANCE + GOO + NATURAL SELECTION + TIME must chant over and over when observing nature "It only looks like design, but its not, It only looks like design, but its not". Because if it is design, as they admit it looks... they've got some 'splainin to do
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