I am reading for the second time a book called "Heaven Without Her," by Kitty Foth-Regner, which is a memoir about a woman's journey from feministic, leftist atheism to the faith of her mother. Now, Kitty is a passionate Christian who understands that the faith of her mother was more than just a mere belief.
In Chapter 14, Kitty comes to grips with science, and the apparent anti-Christian agenda that science claims to represent. This fervor to prove there is no God has pushed some scientists into conjuring up ideas that are not only ludicrous, but defy the principles of science in the first place. Evolution is one such example.
Kitty writes on page 105: "For one thing, evolution theory broke all kinds of natural laws that modern scientists claimed to agree on - laws that I had actually learned somewhere along the way and had conveniently forgotten. For example: Something cannot come from nothing, according to the law of cause and effect. Yet that's what the evolutionary big bang theory requires. Life only comes from life, according to the law of biogenesis - not from non-life. Yet evolution theory says that it was nonlife that jump-started life in some long-ago, faraway chemical soup. Nothing improves with time, according to the second law of thermodynamics. On the contrary: everything clearly deteriorates. Yet evolution theory requires just the opposite."
She later also explains her discovery about how the major evolutionary evidences associated with the Scopes trial had been bogus, and her realization that no transitional fossils have been discovered.
Evolutionists are so adamant about proving their "theory" that they are willing to lie and cheat to accomplish the feat.
The problem is, some aspects of science ceased to be about science long ago, and the direction they took was simply to disprove God. In the scientific community, religion is the enemy, and religious bigotry is rampant.
Prejudice against anything religious reared its ugly head in the scientific community when President Barack Obama dared to appoint Dr. Francis Collins as the head of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Collins is the man that led the team of scientists that successfully mapped the human genome. His other professional qualifications and accomplishments, in addition to his part in the mapping of the human genome, makes him a more than qualified candidate for head of the National Institute of Health. Despite his qualifications, however, Dr. Collins has received less than enthusiasm from the scientific community over President Obama's appointment of him. Why all of the skepticism?
Dr. Francis Collins is a Christian, and not just any Christian, but an Evangelical Christian to boot.
oh, the horror of it all . . .
Science has this idiotic belief that science removes the need for a God, and that Christians believe the Bible somehow requires us to reject much of modern science.
In reality, the Bible came up with what scientists are discovering long before science even exhaled its first breath. Verses throughout the Holy Scripture addresses the laws of science regarding biogenesis, the 1st and 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, the Law of Cause and Effect, astronomy, geophysics, geology, Principle of Isostasy, hydrology, hydrolic balance, meteorology, biology, circulatory systems, painless surgery by placing the patient into a deep sleep, the microscopic world, nutrition, and physics to name a few.
The tension between science and "theism" is a relatively new concept, actually, because science first emerged because humanity wished to learn more about the world God had given us. Even the minds of Plato and Aristotle, long taught to be champions of secularism, operated with the attitude that our existence came from the creative workings of a divine being. Theology has long been the engine behind science, and the scientific search for truth has been motivated by the belief that humanity's ability to reason was a gift from God so that we could gain knowledge about him, and the world around us. Some Christian scientists would even tell you that the extraordinary "coincidences" that make intelligent life possible including the fine tuning of physics is one thing; but our location in the universe, in our galaxy, and in our solar system, as well as size and rotation of the Earth, mass of the moon and sun and so forth not only make this a habitable planet, but these conditions also give humanity a well-suited position for viewing and analyzing the universe. In other words, the universe has been literally designed for our discovery.
In this way, it is not only foolish for the scientific community to proclaim that religion and science have no common ground in the quest for knowledge, but their unwillingness to consider biblical belief systems as a possible hypothesis is holding science back.
So, I am going to give credit where credit is due. President Obama not only chose a fantastic head for the National Institutes of Health because of his credentials, but it is to Barry's credit that he was not put off by Dr. Collins' faith while the rest of the scientific community fumes over the audacity of the choice of a Christian scientist.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Francis Collins, Geneticist - Wikipedia
Contrary to beliefs, not all scientists are godless materialists - The Olympian
Why the Fuss About Dr. Francis Collins’ Faith? - Sojourners
Is The Bible Reliable Scientifically?
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