This week in Dr. Nobel's bio class we have been watching a documentary that explores the lack of academic freedom among scientists as it is related to Intelligent Design. (not Christianity, not even Creationism... just the simple possibility that life could have been designed by some type of intelligent creator.) The information in this documentary has, of course, been disturbing from a Christian point of view, but it has also made me uneasy from a scientific point of view. Isn't the ultimate job of a scientist to find the answers? The true answers, whether we like them or not? Because of this, the line "God is Dead" from Nietzsche makes quite a bit more since. As believers, we know that God is alive. However, among those who do not believe, especially to the point that unbelief has become some type of religion in itself, the simple idea of a creator is ridiculous.
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I watched the same video this week in her class and I was pretty amazed at how close minded some of today's "great minds" are. One time when i was riding in the car with my mentor Roshad, i asked him how i was supposed to prove God to someone if they ask me to. The answer he gave me confused me at first, because pretty much all he said was that i cant. If someone were to ask me to prove to them that God is real, i would simply tell them that i cannot, but more importantly i would add that i do not have a shadow of a doubt that God is real and alive and at work. I would say that i cannot prove God's existence to someone else, but that God has proved himself to me countless times. Maybe it is stupid to believe something that science claims could never and did never happen, but if there is anything in this world that i am absolutely and undoubtedly sure of, it is that God is real, and that He loves me so much more than i could ever comprehend, much less deserve.
ReplyDeleteThe time that Neitzsche wrote in was a great time of scientific advancement. By the way, Nietzsche writes against Darwin and his theory of natural selection, and his objection to the theory is quite humorous. He states, "My general view of the world of values shows that in the highest values which now sway the destiny of man, the happy cases among men, the select specimens, do not prevail: but rather the decadent specimens- perhaps there is nothing more interesting in the whole world than this unpleasant spectacle."
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