It is a rare human being (especially male) who is not vexed by being shown that his logic is faulty. Charles Darwin did not belong to that group and reportedly became furious when Alfred Wallace pointed out that his Theory of Evolution did not explain the origin of exceptional human talents involving music, mathematics and … [Read more…]
“This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous … [Read more…]
“I used to envy the father of our race, dwelling as he did in contact with the new-made fields and plants of Eden; but I so no more, because I have discovered that I also live in ‘creation’s dawn.’ The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful … [Read more…]
INTELLIGENT MEN DECIPHERING “INTELLIGENT DESIGNSâ€: “For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.†Hebrews,†3. “All of Nature is but a metaphor of the human mind.†Emerson It is illogical to assume that physical, mental and spiritual designs can be more complex than the artist/creator of the designs. … [Read more…]
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/12/buckminster-fuller-ever-rethinking-the-lords-prayer/ Buckminster Fuller is described in Wikipedia as a: “designer, inventor, engineer, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmogonist and visionary.†He wrote over 30 books and qualifies as a true renaissance thinker. Among his many inventions is the “geodesic dome,†which inspired scientists who discovered “Carbon 60†(hollow carbon molecules) to name them “Buckminsterfullerenes,†or … [Read more…]
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.†– Mark Twain This is a wonderfully interconnected triad that gifted naturalist Annie Dillard would regard as a “bright snarl.†Without a Creator there would be no “astronomy†or evolution. Without evolution the universe … [Read more…]
In his own words, “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin:†“When thus reflecting [‘on the universe, including man’] I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man’ and I deserve to be called a Theist.†Shame on Richard Dawkins, and other science atheists who … [Read more…]
Typically, it is a literary travesty to reveal the end of a book to those who have not read it. In this case, however, I think it is justified. Readers seeing the words “INTELLIGENT DESIGN,†on a book are likely to mistake its meaning and importance. Ironically (and unfortunately) the term has become toxic, in … [Read more…]
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.†– Albert Einstein There are a growing number of practitioners of “scientism†who become exercised when their critics suggest that science may have some wrong conclusions. Paraphrasing Einstein’s logic, all scientists have been wrong … [Read more…]
Although I am not an authority on “Intelligent Design,†due to a very strange mystery over 40 years ago, along with some very curious high school students, we discovered the “ID†concept before it was named “Intelligent Design.†In a collective act of brilliance, the students questioned the efficacy of the traditional educational model of … [Read more…]