If my opinions offend you, well, my deepest sympathies. They are still my opinions.
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Just a few minutes ago, I was sitting on my front porch, braving the morning chill and watching the sun rise. In my hand, I held a cup of coffee made in my mini-French press, which was given to me by one of the dearest people ever to appear on this earth. The sky was a perfect powder blue and vivid orange, the grass and trees a rich green, and I found myself feeling surrounded by evidence of a Creator. Blessings, be they in the form of a beautiful sunrise, a loved one or a cup of coffee, do not happen by random accident.
Look at New Guinea's birds of paradise, for example.
Could function and art be so deftly combined without a Designer? I don't think so. I am the first to admit that I do not understand everything around me, but basic logic tells me that one cannot throw cosmic dust and four billion years into a blender and pour out such absolute perfection.
It occurs to me that atheism requires more blind faith than any other religion. Thinking that humankind can fully comprehend a universe that it did not create is, frankly, as absolutely absurd as a baby asking its siblings where it came from rather than its parents. What utter arrogance, for a human being to think that he or she can effectively fathom and control the world, thus shafting the One who created both! Should the invention abandon its Inventor? Never.
Picture evolution in a casino. The odds are a million to one to get the desired effect. What are the chances that our world could be the one jackpot, out of so many other failures? I suppose there is the tiniest chance, where the comparison falls apart a bit, but honestly, what sensible person would gamble eternity on such a chance? To this, I say, the House always wins.
In such arguments, I am a firm supporter of Pascal's Wager. If I am wrong, and there is no God, I have lost nothing. If they -- atheists, I mean -- are wrong, well, in simplest terms, they are screwed.
And yet, according to them, I am the ignorant one.
Hmm.
1 comments:
You know, I don't know what compelled me to read this blog, or this particular entry. I was clicking on links in people's forums signatures and I ended up here.
First off, let me say that I agree with you on your main point. The odds of the universe and the life within it occurring by random chance are so long it's beyond mathematically absurd.
What this indicates (I avoid saying "proves", as that would be impossible) then, is that some force/being/deity is responsible for, or had a hand in our creation and subsequent evolution.
In spite of this, I am not a religious person, nor do I ever feel I will be. Why? Because things it does not indicate include the divinity of Jesus Christ, the divine insight of prophets such as Moses, Isaiah or Muhammad, or any number of other such things. Those all have to be accepted on faith.
I'm not trying to be confrontational or anything. I'm not even trying to argue in favor of my own point of view. I'm merely pointing out how one can be an "atheist" (though not really, I suppose, by the technical meaning of the term) and still not be religious.
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