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Exploring the Universe with Dr. Norio Kaifu
During 1998 we were fortunate to attend a dinner hosted by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Hawaii, featuring a lecture by Dr. Norio Kaifu. Professor Kaifu is the director of the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of...
Intuition - Part I
I. The Three Intuitions IA. Eidetic Intuitions Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access to what? Does it access directly "intuitions" (abstract objects, akin to numbers or properties - see "Bestowed Existence")? Are...
The Gift of Gab
A working understanding of temperament styles (personality types) will have a profound impact on the way you perceive yourself and will greatly enhance all of your relationships. If you are a salesperson, this information will significantly increase...
The Harmonic (Logos etc.)
The Harmonic In a good history book by a leading light in the field of history, I recall Michael Grant saying Pythagoras was ‘weird’. This book is The Rise of the Greeks and he does almost admit he is not qualified to judge the great sage, which...
The Joan of Arc Complex
Sometimes I think that I have a mental health problem and that at any minute the pharmaceutical companies are going to develop a cute little green star-shaped pill to cure me of my ailment. I call it my Joan of Arc Complex. You see, I hear voices...
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The Chances are...
The Chances are…
Terry Dashner…………….Faith Fellowship Church PO Box 1586 Broken Arrow, OK 74013
If there is no Creator, then we have some problems. If there is no “first cause” as Saint Thomas Aquinas stated, then our theory of beginnings has problems. If physical laws of thermodynamics are constant and irrefutable throughout the universe, then our theory of evolution has some real problems. I think it takes more faith to believe that the universe and humanity evolved from nothing and no Creator than it does to believe this, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…”
Robert J. Hastings gives a good illustration to support this. Says Hastings, “Some say that creation was the result of chance. Others say it was God. Those who rely on chance have some big explaining to do. Here is one simple illustration of the improbability of man just ‘happening.’
“Take ten pennies and mark them 1 to 10. Put them in your pocket and give them a good shake. Now try to draw them out of your pocket in order, from 1 to 10, returning each coin to your pocket after each try.
“Your chance of drawing number 1 on the first try is 1 in 10. Your chance of drawing 1 and 2 in succession would be 1 in 100. On drawing 1, 2, and 3 in succession, one in a thousand. Your chance of drawing 1, 2, 3, and 4 is succession would be one in 10,000, and so on.
“Now listen to this. Your chance of drawing the pennies in perfect succession, 1 to 10, would be one chance in ten billion!
“And yet there are some who say that all the complex and essential conditions for life on our earth as we know it could have occurred in the proper sequence just by ‘chance.’
“Leslie Weatherhead said, ‘It demands more of credulity to imagine that the universe was all a huge accident than to believe in the operation of a mind. How very strange that a ball of matter accidentally happening, and
accidentally moving round the sun, should accidentally and purposelessly produce a man who purposefully seeks truth and purposefully asks how such and accident could happen, thus exhibiting a more profound degree of intelligence than that which accidentally produced this amazing universe.’”
As a life-long student of science, history, philosophy, and theology, I’ve come to refute the notion that scientists cannot be devoted theists. Every discipline has its absolutes, even science. For example, science is governed by certain physical laws. It is an absolute fact that oil and water cannot mix. World history records historical fact, as opposed to legends, fables, mythology, and the revisionists. Philosophy is logical because truth is logical and universal (it’s nonsense to contradict truth whether one is an American or a citizen of any other country in the world). And theology has its absolutes. As a theist, I believe this absolute truth: God exists.
As a life-long student of life in general, I find it curious that many famous scientists of history were devout Christians. Their faith didn’t interfere with their vocations. Their vocations were enhanced by their faith. Here are just a few Christian scientists of history: Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Georg Cantor, and Sir Isaac Newton. Carl Friedrich Gauss said this, “There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us…” God is above all and the Creator of all things. Keep the faith. Stay the course. Jesus, who is God’s only begotten Son, is coming soon.
Pastor T.
About the Author
Pastors a small church in Broken Arrow, OK. US Navy veteran, retired police officer, and father of three grown children. A U.S. patriot.
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