I watched the 2 hour Nova documentary Judgment Day, Intelligent Design on Trial last night. Darwin’s theory of evolution never seems to fail at firing up the emotional pressure cooker to “nuclear”. I should start out by saying I want nothing more than for there to be more to life than the bleak, cold, scientific explanation of how we got here. I can understand how unnerving it must be for those devout in their faith to reconcile with the theory of evolution. After watching last night’s program however, I can also say, without a doubt, that the religious sect just got slam dunked so hard not even Pat Robertson’s hurricane diverting prayer power can save them.
Oh that wicked thing called knowledge, such an insensitive liberator. I’ll never look at Intelligent Design as anything more than religious whack-jobs with a religion agenda to push. The real kicker is the death threats toward the judge, parents, and teachers that only wanted to uphold the establishment clause of the Constitution. Death Threats (and lying)... How very un-Christian of them.
These are probably the same people who balk when an Islamic extremist blows something up. What’s that saying about let he without sin cast the first stone? We’re not all that far from the same level of religious fanaticism we seem to abhor.
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Sadly, we haven't changed in (what the religious consider the beginning of time) say, 3,000 years. Still a waring, heirarchial people we are, wouldn't you say?
Now, we propose a thought....what if you needn't worry at all about the cold scientific "facts?" The real fact is, even the scientists don't have the answer. The preachers and priests certainl don't. They are simply using the church as a control mechanism - it's become a business.
Our soul is a piece of energy coming from something we know if greater than us. Most would agree in some way or another on that, regardless of who put the energy into the body, right? So, if after death the energy returns to its original state, returns to the whole or transforms into something else (which in most cases, the scientific community agrees; energy doesn't just cease to exist), then we could reasonably assess that the energy must go somewhere.
There is no death. The truth is no one knows where the energy goes. Some say heaven. Some say an end.
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Having done CPR numerous times, I can attest to the 'soul' factor. I have 'seen' or, felt the soul leave the body. The body actually seems to shrink, to become less, and to lose whatever physical inspiration it formerly had. I could walk into a room or onto a scene and tell if CPR would be a wasted effort - or if there was still a spirit left in it that wanted to stay. I did CPR as proscribed by laws and practices - but I always knew when it was futile.
What was it? Energy? A soul? Mere Chemical electricity? I can't say, but I know it exists; like a drifting miasma that has centered on a corporate form, it is almost-not-quite-visible. And that 'soul' is probably why we are so insistent and arrogant about our individuality. We prefer to believe that we are the only creatures who carry it; we are individual, we are different (even though I have seen the 'souls' of animals depart in the same way).
I consider it exponential arrogance to insist that God has chosen this group or that religion, when everyone - from the most reprehensible criminal shot in the act to the innocent deer or rabbit - has that miasma, that potential, that illuminated influence, that electrical energy that leaves all too soon in most cases. The Spirit - from whatever source - is what makes us who and what we are, not what makes us better than anyone or anything else.
Like the electricity that comes in on wires to the house, how we use it - for good or ill - is our choice, and we reap the benefits or suffer the consequences... or, we should. Too bad, thanks to peabrained apologists, non-Darwinian emotionalists, as well as fanatical religionists who from their own insecurities HAVE to believe that they are better than anyone around them, it doesn't work out that way.
For those who only believe in man and themselves!Man is always trying to prove a God exists!Man is nothing without God,the true God.You will find out in the end.It will be to late for you then.Go back to the jungles and join them.I do agree to many churches are wrong,but never is God,Jesus wrong.Darwin is a nut case! You who follow should not follow a therory of a man!
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