Religion & Law

Doublethink II

By John Pieret

It seems examiner.com is becoming a hotbed of creationism. Here is another example by one Donald James Parker. He is complaining about a talk by Ken Miller he saw on YouTube (for reasons which will become obvious, I doubt he heard a word said). Here is the amusing bit:

How the ID movement featuring a total focus on scientific arguments and a total exclusion of specific mention of religion from the agenda is confused with the Creationism movement is a real fascinating area of study. Talk about your red herrings. I've come to the conclusion that evolution proponents have so turned off their minds to anything that detracts from Darwinistic philosophy that they don't even hear the arguments being laid out by ID proponents. That is really frustrating because we argue against someone who isn't listening and have to listen to claims of how they've debunked intelligent design when they don't even know what it is they're trying to debunk.

I've had communication with Dr. Miller in the past. He laughs about those who tell him his eternal destiny will be hotter than the Mojave Desert in summer. I didn't say that in my letters to him, but I did suggest that if Darwin's work has been a tool of the devil that Miller was just a pawn in Satan's army and finding that out on judgment day will be a bit of rude (and perhaps unpleasant) shock. If you truly love God, how would you feel to find out you have been giving support to his enemy? ...

If God didn't design life, then in what way is he God? Why would he need to send his son Jesus to earth to die a cruel death and suffer the mocking of inferior mortals to save something that he didn't design? I don't know if God created the world in six literal days, and I don't get hung up on that detail. I do know it didn't create itself using natural laws which themselves would have to be created, and life didn't come along by itself. If God had any hand in how we arrived at where we are, that means it is designed. He has placed his signature in multiple places on this portrait known as the universe.

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on May 23, 2009 (boomark / email).