Posts tagged God

Does Evolution Prove There Is No God?

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12 years
by in Faith and Science, Testing Faith

As a scientist I claim no new proofs, no revolutionary data, no stunning insight into nature that can tip the balance in one direction or another. But I do claim that to a believer, even in the most traditional sense, evolutionary biology is not at all the obstacle we often believe it to be. – […]

“Don’t Think. Pray.”

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12 years
by in Fundamentalism, Musings, Testing Faith, When Reason Fails

While vacationing with my family on the Big Island in the Hawaiian Islands, we drove past a sign, hanging on a cross, that said, “Don’t Think. Pray.” Actually, we drove past it many times, as it was on a main highway that traversed the West coastline, Highway 11 around mile marker 109. After seeing the […]

Intelligent Design?

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12 years
by in Faith and Science, Fundamentalism, Musings, Testing Faith, When Reason Fails

Some proponents of Intelligent Design use the eye as an example of God’s intelligent design that is irreducibly complex, which had been created intact as it is today. No component of the eye, by itself, could have been of any use. Therefore, evolution could not have produced an eye, only a creator with a design plan. […]

Response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where Was God?”

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12 years
by in Crazy Characters, Fundamentalism, Musings, Politics, Testing Faith

[Author’s note: Originally, this was a response to Mike Huckabee’s “Where was God?” video he posted on Facebook, but since then many others—James Dobson and Newt Gingrich, for two—have voiced the same remarks, directly or indirectly blaming the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on our secular society. Although, it is a response to Mr. Huckabee, […]

Simplistic Answers to Complex Problems

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12 years
by in 42, Or There Are No Simple Answers, Ghost in the Machine?, Me 5.x, Testing Faith

One thing the Internet has done was to expand the proliferation of armchair philosophy and psychology in simple, catchy words of encouragement. I realize that many people, who frequently post such phrases are dealing with issues of their own and this is their way of dealing with them. Regardless, it has become irritating seeing these […]

Is There a Point to Praying?

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13 years
by in Me 5.x, Musings, Testing Faith

Prayer, does it work? No one really knows for sure. Is that really true? The old saying goes, “Work like it all depends on you and pray like it all depends on God.” Or “God helps those, who help themselves.” On the face value it makes sense that God is not just going to hand […]

When Things Don’t Go As Expected

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14 years
by in Testing Faith

Believers often ignore science, by stating that it is fallible and has changed. They state that you cannot trust science because it may change what is thought to be true, where as the word of God is infallible. Getting things wrong is actually a good thing and is not a reason to disregard science entirely. […]

Rational Thinking is Not Anti-Belief

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14 years
by in Testing Faith, Virtual Societies

When discussing the facts of science and spiritual beliefs, some interpret my advising them of the facts as an attack on their belief in God. I do no such thing. God can exist within the scientific world (no matter how unlikely that may be) and scientists, such as Kenneth Miller, have written on the subject. […]

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