“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1.2 The Intelligent Design movement is growing in strength. It is difficult to ignore the force of the arguments made by Stephen Meyer, Michael Behe, Donald Axe, and many others that the mindless, random worldview adopted by modern science cannot explain the undeniable order in the world. From the computer-like code of the DNA molecule to the fine-tuning of the fundamental parameters that make a universe – and life itself – possible, it takes a great leap of faith to adopt the position that no intelligence of any kind is involved in how the world operates. But that is the leap modern, materialistic science makes: today’s scientists attempt to explain the world without resorting to a supernatural power or an intelligence of...
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“The fight now is not to find a fundamental theory, it is to get noticed and the easiest way to do that is to get on board a bandwagon. You get this feedback loop; the people who spend longer on the bandwagon get more citations, then more funding, and the cycle repeats.” Cosmologist, Niayesh Afshordi[1] “To often we see only what we expect to see: our view of the world is restricted by the blinkers of our limited experience; but it need not be this way.” Lyall Watson, Supernature A view of the world know as scientific materialism believes that hard stuff makes up the universe. Rocks, sand, boulders, chairs, planets, stars and space dust. Stuff we can feel; hit; and stand on. Something that is there when we are not looking. A real...
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“Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. ” Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose “From your thought springs your reality. From your ideas your future emerges.” Neale Donald Walsch, Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge Thoughts become things. Radiate positive vibrations and watch the universe reverberate in kind; we create our own reality; think high thoughts and your world grows brighter; focus on the negative, and your fears materialize. Thoughts inside attract things out there. Tomorrow’s God will come down to earth and be part of us, as humankind awakens to find that its concept of a supreme being does not reflect the real God. Life is God acting out its purpose, becoming real in physical form. A universal mind underlies the world; speak to it and it will supply an answer. Make up your mind; think positive thoughts; enrich yourself; leave...
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Modern scientists seem to have forgotten that quest of science is not to prove materialism true, but to explain the world with a coherent theory. These are two separate things. Materialism is at a bottom a metaphysical position that assumes that ultimate reality consists of lifeless particles and forces with no connection to a mind or intelligence. The world of the materialist is one without direction, purpose or meaning. These mindless particles whiz by, combining, repelling, interacting and disappearing. Somehow, in the early furnace of the Big Bang, the particles decided, against all odds, to form together and rocket toward a world of perfect order, the place we live in now. But in their quest to prove materialism true, there is no assumption too large, no particle too exotic, and no mental gymnastics too great for them to string together a materialistic world picture. Scientists become trapped by the error when...
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Materialism, the doctrine that the entire cosmos and all living things can ultimately be reduced to mindless stuff, has many fundamental flaws. Here is one of them: Even in the mindless, God-less, designer-less worldview of materialism, a mind is still present. Where is this mind? In the head of a scientific theorist who imagines that the intelligence and organizational ability of dead and dumb matter is much more creative than this matter could ever be on its own. Let me provide a bit more detail. At bottom, material scientists believe they can explain the entire universe using only matter and the laws of nature. The laws of nature are necessary to give order and regularity to the dust that would otherwise scatter in the wind. For example, the laws of gravity, chemistry, quantum theory, and nuclear fission are considered among those forces responsible for sculpting the large-scale structure of the...
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