Spirituality

And the Mountain too is Spirit: The Flaw of Intelligent Design

“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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Looks Like Heaven will Need to be on Earth After All

Many religions speak of a better place far off in another spiritual dimension where humankind will find peace and tranquility; where the mind rises to enlightenment, and the soul reaches Nirvana.  Others look to the Second Coming when a messiah will appear on Earth and establish the Kingdom of God.   In this kingdom, presumably, humankind will finally be united as one, brotherhood will reign, and there will be peace throughout the land.             In each one of these utopian worlds, people will necessarily be the actors in the story.  And the only way for this story to be worthy of a place called heaven is if the actors treat each other with the respect due as if the moral law is as true as the laws of science. Transporting ourselves to another world, in and of itself, will not make us better people, for we wind up being the same...

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