60 posts and growing. I apologize for not responding to everyone's posts. There was a problem with my account's ability to post. All fixed. Thanks Joe A. I'll start working my way through this week. Al
That is strange. The universe itself is a supernatural occurrence, and your transformation from hydrogren and helium to an intelligent human being. So to doubt the supernatural is itself doubting the natural
The reality is that you cannot understand yourself without appeal to a higher source. It is just illogical (take it all the way back from evolution to the BIG BANG). Faith is not inability to deal with reality. It is a realisation that reality is incomplete without faith.
Good point. If you don't believe in the supernatural, your view cannot be based in science. See link below for an additional phenomenon of transformation. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4237751840526284618&q=what+the+bleep&pl=true
"The very concept of faith is an insult to human intelligence. If you take something on faith, you are in effect saying, "I don't need evidence, facts, or logic. Evidence is worthless, facts are for ninnies, logic is nonsense. I'll believe whatever I want even if reality overwhelmingly shows that it's just not true."
Faith is not blind acceptance of positions that contradicts the fact. It is a relaisation that our knowledge based on facts are incomplete. I think it is sheer arrogance to think our limited human intelligence can "auto-discover" everything about ourselves. It is like the computer one day coming out with this statement about itself "I am assembled by human beings from silicon". What would you as the designer of that computer make of that intelligence? I guess you would laugh at the "foolishness" the computer calls intelligence. By the reckoning of science, intelligence came into being at one time (not to question when time come into being!): from a big bang of inanimate matter that ultimately transformed to living beings and intelligent humans. And with this evolved intelligence man thinks he can answer all questions about himself! Do you not think there is a snag somewhere?
======================== Good points; more than 2 good points Right on the money exchangers; just looked it up. Jesus tell s the wicked & lazy servant quote'' you should have put my money with the exchangers[bankers], then at my coming I should have recieved mine own with interest''King james & Amplified version And to amplify a partial point of nickname foible; its not just new testament Christianity.Sure thats important But My banker dad never preached this one to me-he practiced the last one. King Solomon the trader king said ''the lazy man roasteth not that which he took in hunting; but the {diligent}industriois man reaps a rich harvest . Proverbs 12,Old Testament, Solomon,son of king David.