Thursday, September 20, 2012
Worship of God = evolved worship of moon?
Anthropology is a legitimate study. We know humans have worshipped the sun, the aurora borealis, cows, rocks etc. What we see as foolish should not be that they worshipped, rather what they worshipped. It was never a good idea to worship the created things rather than the Creator.
To me, atheism is no less foolish than worshipping lights in the sky. With the atheist, so far as I can tell 'Nothing' or 'Science' take the place of the Creator. The problem with ‘Nothing’ is that it doesn’t actually do anything. ‘Science’ is always a description of physical phenomena that will require further explanation ad infinitum.
‘God’ or ‘that which is responsible for all that exist’ is the very valid human recognition of the ‘ultimate.’ It is where we can’t go on our own. He is the necessary end of the road. He is that which is ultimately behind all possible inquiry. I love science, but it's only one aisle in all of Home Depot.
Hopefully, it is self-evident how absurd ‘nothing’ is as an answer to meaningful human questions like ‘what is the meaning of life?’ or ‘what is evil? is anything really wrong?’
Beware of ‘pseudo-scientific’ responses that reduce meaningful non-material questions to physical problems.
'Mommy, why Don't you love me?' -5 year old girl
'Animal instinct, DNA, electrons and dark matter.' -Mommy
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