Going through the information of the different candidates platforms briefly yesterday, I came across this in Hillary Clinton's stand on climate change:
It reminded me of the theory of evolution and the cry to not "deny the facts."
As the great scientist Stephen Hawking stated,
How did the world get created? "God's power" vs "random selection and mutation"
One you have to accept on faith in God's word through the prophets; the other you have to accept on faith in the ability of mutations to generate complex viable life systems.
How long did it take? "Seven 'days' in God's time" (Bible) vs. "billions of years" (radioactive carbon-dating)
One you have to accept, again, on God's word; the other you have to accept based upon a theory. Radioactive carbon-dating is openly acknowledge as unreliable in my Yale course on Evolution and they are seeking for other methods or measures to validate their belief in their theory.
What evidence do you have?
-The story of the Bible and repetitive supporting of this "story" by prophets who have demonstrated God-like power over the years.
vs.
-A few skeletons (that themselves could be abnormal defects out of thousands of 'normal' skeletons) that have been lined up in a row to assume an 'evolution' of man." Fossils of extinct organisms have also been lined up in a way to support the theory of evolution from one being to another, despite the huge lack of 'bridge'-species in the fossil record. Basically, we are asked to take on faith that there will be substantial evidence to be found later in the fossil record to validate the theory (or belief) of modern evolutionists that man evolved from apes.
Once again, I must point out that micro-evolution (or the natural selection of one species over another due to better ability to live in an environment) has much more evidence confirming it and, I feel, is actually one of the ways God works within His kingdom as well. Those who are willing to be refined and conform to God's "survivability laws" have a better chance of "making it. That's one thing I love about science!! It is the exploration of what might possibly be true and seeking for evidence to validate those theories.
Ironically enough, I approach my faith in God the same way. I have a theory based upon my evidence and as I look around at the world, I seek for evidence to support or oppose it. I am actually a lot harder on my faith than people may realize. I have blasted and attacked my own faith...with truth. And, in my practical experience, God and faith is still the most viable or explicable answer with the facts I have found.
Approach your search to truth whichever way you will, but let us not attack the role of faith in those believers of a higher power. The "higher power" of science is loudly blasting it's belief from the podiums of modern education and political agendas. I would humble petition that we acknowledge what is fact and what is theory/belief and allow for people to draw their own conclusions.
In spite of the strongest possible scientific consensus about what climate change means for our environment, economy, health, and future, there are still some who deny the facts. They’re intent on obstructing progress.
As the great scientist Stephen Hawking stated,
"Any physical theory...is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No chatter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the theory. Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify that theory. At least that is what is supposed to happen, but you can always question the competence of the person who carried out the observation." (Our Picture of the Universe)Evolutionists look at items and make observations and draw conclusions. They are using their powers of observation to examine and guess at what the best answer would be considering what they have to work with. Let's look at "Creationism" and the "Theory of Evolution" side by side for a moment:
How did the world get created? "God's power" vs "random selection and mutation"
One you have to accept on faith in God's word through the prophets; the other you have to accept on faith in the ability of mutations to generate complex viable life systems.
How long did it take? "Seven 'days' in God's time" (Bible) vs. "billions of years" (radioactive carbon-dating)
One you have to accept, again, on God's word; the other you have to accept based upon a theory. Radioactive carbon-dating is openly acknowledge as unreliable in my Yale course on Evolution and they are seeking for other methods or measures to validate their belief in their theory.
What evidence do you have?
-The story of the Bible and repetitive supporting of this "story" by prophets who have demonstrated God-like power over the years.
vs.
-A few skeletons (that themselves could be abnormal defects out of thousands of 'normal' skeletons) that have been lined up in a row to assume an 'evolution' of man." Fossils of extinct organisms have also been lined up in a way to support the theory of evolution from one being to another, despite the huge lack of 'bridge'-species in the fossil record. Basically, we are asked to take on faith that there will be substantial evidence to be found later in the fossil record to validate the theory (or belief) of modern evolutionists that man evolved from apes.
Once again, I must point out that micro-evolution (or the natural selection of one species over another due to better ability to live in an environment) has much more evidence confirming it and, I feel, is actually one of the ways God works within His kingdom as well. Those who are willing to be refined and conform to God's "survivability laws" have a better chance of "making it. That's one thing I love about science!! It is the exploration of what might possibly be true and seeking for evidence to validate those theories.
Approach your search to truth whichever way you will, but let us not attack the role of faith in those believers of a higher power. The "higher power" of science is loudly blasting it's belief from the podiums of modern education and political agendas. I would humble petition that we acknowledge what is fact and what is theory/belief and allow for people to draw their own conclusions.
God exists whether we chose to believe or not. I love how we don't have to worry whether that theory can be proved.
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