Someone once said to me, there's a fallacy in your brain that
allows you to believe in God.
He said this knowing well that I do believe in God.
Although, this might seem like an incredibly cruel thing to say to
someone that is admittedly a Christian, I don't think he meant it to
come across that way.
My first reaction was to feel defensive, and then later, hurt by
this. As a Christian, it's hard to hear this. It's like they're talking badly about someone in your family, or a
close friend because it is someone you know and love.
I imagined this person sitting there, grounded
in intellectual logic, not meaning to be offensive, but saying what
he felt was a truth in his life.
I felt compassion for him.
We are all so sure about things in our lives when we
feel they are our personal truths. No one can talk us out of believing them, and it's hard to let go of things we feel are true.
It made me sad for my friend, sad that he couldn't experience the joy, the
love, the hope that someone who has a relationship with
God could experience.
Yes, there is a fallacy in the human brain that allows you to accept
things without seeking the truth, defend things that you are accustomed to
defending, and borrow ideas because it sounds intelligent, or it might
sound factual, and believing it without having a personal experience, or
personal knowledge of what is true.
Sometimes we aren't informed at all or appropriately. This happens strongly out of the traditions we have in our lives sometimes, other times it happens because something might sound good and we hop on the bandwagon. No facet of life is excluded, religions, schools, and day-to-day articles
or t.v. shows that broadcast something we might feel sounds right.
We believe what we are taught in our public school systems, because
heaven forbid they teach us something that isn't substantiated!
I mean, they're responsible for our education. How can they pick and
choose what to teach us? How could they be wrong?
I might be going out on a limb, and maybe even upsetting a few people
by this post, but please know this not my attention. This is my blog
after all, and I feel I have a certain responsibility to express my
feelings and thoughts in a genuine manner. I cannot apologize for my
view, nor will I. I do however have compassion on anyone I've offended, or might continue to offend (if you read on) :]. I
encourage you to open up your heart and mind.
The science education taught in most public schools, even though it
claims to be progressive and encourage a value of open-mindedness, does quite
the opposite. You are taught one theory-- our universe came from an explosion,
which may seem logical to some. But have you ever seen a pile of building
materials lying around explode into a house? Is there evidence in our world
today of something exploding and becoming better than it was before the
explosion occurred, and not only that, but out of nothing?
Who designs a
house? It’s a designer, not an explosion. I am simply asking you to think about
that for a minute. The only scientific theory we are even taught to consider is
one that cannot be replicated by our own scientists today. We cannot take
nothing and make something out of it. How is this science forward thinking and
progressive? Instead we are taught one theory, and from a very young age. This
is a backwards idea that doesn't allow science to progress, especially if we
are teaching our future scientists that if you are a scientist you must believe
this one theory.
There are many world-renowned scientists responsible for
substantial discoveries, programs, and legacies that we utilize in
schools now, but not everything is included about them in our public
education. Even their recommendations are tossed aside at times. We are taught what is popular, and we are told to reject anything that has to do with God. Why is this intolerance allowed? Is it discrimination to teach one theory, but not all ideas?
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Here is an excerpt from a letter written to the California State Board of Education by Dr. Wernher von Braun.
He's the leading founder of the modern space exploration program
"NASA"
"One cannot be
exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must
be a design and purpose behind it all….The better we understand the intricacies
of the universe and all it harbors, the more reason we have found to marvel at
the inherent design upon which it is based…To be forced to believe only one
conclusion-- that everything in the universe happened by chance-- would violate
the very objectivity science itself…. What random process could
produce brains of a man or the system of a human eye?… They
(evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must
we really light a candle to see the sun? … They say they cannot visualize a
Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron?…What strange rationale
makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing
to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive
Him? … It is in science honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative
theories for the origin of the universe, life, and man in the science classroom. It
would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned
rather than happening by chance."
Saying that we came from nothing, or happened by chance even violates
the very facets of science about order not coming from chaos.
How could one explosion produce so much order? We don't see that even
today in our society, as more time passes on, more chaos happens. As we get
older, our bodies break down. More floods occur, more fires occur, more
destruction. Time does not make things better, but worse.
Here's a little statistics for you, and I can vouch for this scenario
because I passed statistics with an A+. :]
We have about 200 bones in our body, and exactly one spot
for them all to connect to. What is the random chance, that these bones
will be placed in the right order on the very first try?
It's 200!, which is a factorial. Try and imagine this number in
your head. This factorial = 1 with 375 zeros after it.
There isn't enough time thats occurred for this theory to have been
lived out in our world.
200 bones is the most basic illustration. Our bodies have some
odd 200,000 (this factorial make break your calculator ;] ) different proteins
to make up all of their organic structures, and these proteins must have at
least one activating enzyme that is specific to that protein to work.
All of these things must be perfectly together at the same time to
provide the construction of a living thing with all the intricacies of their
systems and organs, but that still doesn't necessarily mean you have a life.
"Ask a
mathematician what are the odds of accidentally discovering the winning lottery
ticket for the jackpot lottery lying on the ground by your trash can. Now
ask what are the odds of
finding ANOTHER winning ticket tomorrow in the same place. For even more
intricately arranged genetic code (for something like an amoeba) to evolve by chance is similar to
the chance of finding another winning lottery ticket every day for
the next thousand years! In other words, you don't have to be a
mathematician to conclude that such odds are utterly impossible. Yet, this
kind of trick had to happen trillions of times over to produce all the
systems of life on earth by chance."
quote from Dennis
Peterson
Sometimes
when I’ve searched things out, I’ve been somewhat fearful of what I would find.
It’s not easy researching something that might contradict your beliefs or
values, but searching has only reaffirmed my faith by learning more about how science
works!
Don’t
be afraid of discovering the truth. :]
