Faith Well Grounded

A word about directionality: Evolution does not have a direction. Organisms can go towards complexity or simplicity. It's all determined by the environment and selection pressures. Just because humans are complex multi-cellular animals doesn't mean we've had the most evolution. Every living creature today is the result of the same amount of evolutionary time.

With all of the talk of information in the genomes, the natural question arises:

If DNA is a storage medium for information, doesn't that indicate a designer? DNA encodes and decodes information based on an alphabet. It even contains error-checking.

DNA as a natural process is like accepting the natural formation of the TCP/IP protocol.

I was recently taken to task for making reference to the fabled 747/tornado argument during a discussion of abiogenesis.

The comment read:

Please don't bring that old canard up. It's really beneath you. Anyone who thinks that is analogous to the way evolution (and these hypotheses of abiogenesis) works is only displaying a profound lack of understanding of the most basic concepts.

The various discussions here centered around evolution have often come back to my (and others') distinction between micro and macro evolution. EDogg stated the evolutionist's mindset very well in a recent comment, in that he makes no distinction between micro and macro evolution. We see changes now, thus these small changes over a vast amount of time equate to macro evolution. Small changes add up.

The Evolutionists: the Struggle for Darwin's Soul, Richard Morris, pg 97...

CS Lewis, in "Miracles", proposed that we can not trust our rationale if it is the result of mindless, unplanned, irrational causes. In other words, if the string of rationality is broken in the cause-effect string going back, then there is no rationality.

The implication is that if our logic and rationality is the result of naturalistic evolution, then we can't trust that logic and rationality. If our rationality is thus caused, then the rationality of naturalism has no basis and is self-defeating and internally inconsistent.

1Jo 3:18 Little children, we must stop loving in word and in tongue, but instead love in action and in truth.

Yes... I'm back into the writings of Richard Morris. If you've followed my blog posts, you'll know that I love his writings. To say that I respect the late Mr. Morris would be a huge understatement.

This week, it's "The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul" (Freeman, 2001). This posts isn't necessarily about evolution, though I added it as a category since this is an associated subject and the blog is fueled by reading on such. This post, as usual, is about the Naturalistic philosophy being paraded as science.

Sometimes, the little things you do affect people in a big way.

A wonderful lady in our church makes baby carriers and slings. She doesn't think much about it, but she does think enough that every new mother in our church ends up with one. They are beautiful, and seeing the mothers in our church is a constant reminder of a wonderful talent pointed outward.

NOTE! Faith Well Grounded is absolutely and diametrically opposed to the "God Hates Fags" message and movement

Thanks

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I've looked into this just enough to assure myself that it is a joke. I'm not exactly sure what their intent is, but I'm leaning toward the idea that it is an effort to show just how stupid groups like Fred Phelps' are.