“PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE”
You never hear that subtitle for “The Origin of Species” written by Charles Darwin. The outward racist beliefs of Darwin are never talked about or mentioned when genuflecting to his evolutionary theories. His views grew roots in the fertile soil of hatred in the twentieth century and allowed for the extermination of our fellow man because of a self appointed superiority.
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ”
~ Charles Darwin, “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”
“I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man… Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world. It is a common subject of conjecture what pleasure in life some of the lower animals can enjoy: how much more reasonably the same question may be asked of these barbarians!”
~ Charles Darwin, “Voyage of the Beagle”
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I think it represents the Earth. There is also some controversy over the optics of the sphere.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUTTERFLY PARADOX
As children, most of us become familiar with the life cycle of the butterfly. We learn that the butterfly starts out life as an egg laid by an adult. The egg hatches and a larval caterpillar is born. The caterpillar feeds and grows until it sheds its skin and starts the pupal stage of its life. In this stage the larva undergoes radical changes to its body. The legs, wings, and the body of an adult butterfly are formed and after a certain amount of time it emerges.
Here lies the paradox, the life cycle of the butterfly is only perpetuated by the adult mating and then laying its eggs. Consequently, the larva is not the same body configuration as the adult and cannot reproduce. It is separated from the reproductive phase of its life by a massive rearranging of its body in the pupal stage.
How does this rearranging of major body parts happen in an evolutionary paradigm, where changes happen with individual random mutations in DNA?
For the life cycle of the butterfly to exist in evolutionary terms the first larva of the species must make the transition to adult in one clean mutational jump. The pupal stage requires the DNA information to be clear and contain the many changes to form into an adult… to then reproduce. If this process was due to a series of singular random mutations, a vast amount would be detrimental to the larva and would kill it.
How does this change happen via singular random mutations of DNA?
This seems to be an all or nothing conundrum.
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Life is definitely interdependent and an interconnected web.
Everyone has been told that science disproves the Bible. This is an absolute lie. In reality, science supports the Bible, if not fully proving its truths. The idea that the universe and life happened by accident is totally contrary to logic.
FYI, I agree with the information in this article, but not with everything Metaxas says or believes. He uses amazing arguments like this, but still doesn't believe in a literal 6 day creation or the approximately 6,000 years described by the Bible even though it best fits the words of the Bible and science (when scientists are honest).
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https://ericmetaxas.com/watch-read/articles/science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god/
It could be just breaking away from the matrix happens in steps. We have had the millions of years drummed into us for a very long time. Cheers!
I am feeling that way a few months into my journey!
My mom is fond of them. She says that female yellow cats are the sweetest. Who knew!
SCIENCE IS POINTING TO GOD
Speaking about the growing evidence that the universe had a Creator, Robert Jastrow the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies wrote this in his book “God and the Astronomers”.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
~ Robert Jastrow
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GOD AS THE FIRST CAUSE
In Exodus, God refers to Himself as “I AM”, implying that He is the the first cause of everything. This is different from most religions where the gods were created at some point after the universe was created.
(13) Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”
(14) God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
~ EXODUS
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SCIENCE INCREASINGLY MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD
Published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 by Eric Metaxas illustrates a compelling case that science is increasingly making the case for a Creator of the universe.
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https://ericmetaxas.com/watch-read/articles/science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god/
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS AND JESUS CHRIST
Flavius Josephus was a prominent Jewish born historian in the first century AD. He wrote about the history of Isreal and the surrounding area of that time. In his book "Jewish Antiquities" he discusses the historical Jesus of Nazareth.
"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, 9 those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; 10 as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day."
~ Flavius Josephus, “Jewish Antiquities”, 18.3.3
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Salvator Mundi (c. 1510) by Leonardo da Vinci
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THE SACRIFICE OF ST. DAMIEN OF MOLOKA’I
St. Damien of Moloka'i, also known as Father Damien, was a Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Damien volunteered to take charge of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i in Hawaii. He served there for 16 years until his death on April 15, 1889. During his time serving the colony as their Pastor and physician, Father Damien cared for the sick in both their physical and spiritual needs. He also improved many of the colonies buildings and improved the water and food supplies. Father Damian was not afraid to do the one thing that the victims of leprosy never experienced, he touched them. This was his sacrifice to the people that he loved, people that were untouchable by regular society.
In 1884, he contracted leprosy but refused to leave the colony. Father Damian choose to stay with his people and continued to care for them until his death. His remains were returned to Belgium in 1936 to be buried in Leuven which is close to the village where he was born. However, his right hand was returned to Moloka'i in 1995 to be buried in his original resting spot as a beautiful testament to the people that he touched with his compassion.
“My greatest pleasure is to serve the Lord in his poor children rejected by other people.”
~ St. Damien of Moloka'i
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“Every time you think you’re being rejected God’s actually redirecting you to something better. Ask him to give you the strength to press forward.”
~ Nick Vujicic
THE BELL OF THE TEMPLE PRIEST
A gold bell was found during an archaeological excavation of a drainage canal near the Pool of Siloam which is near the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The bell which is shaped like a pomegranate is suspected to be from a high priest or official during the Second Temple period before the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. It was customary for the Temple priest to sew in bells along the fringes of their garments as stated in Exodus, so that when entering the Holy Place before the Lord the priest would not die.
(33) On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, (34) a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe (35) And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.
Exodus 28:33-35 ESV
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NOAH’S ARK DROGUE STONES
The Durupinar site in the Middle East has many landmarks that have been associated with Noah's Ark over the centuries. Among these are the Arzap drogue stones, which are large standing stones found near the site. These stones were believed to have been attached to the ark and used as sea anchors or drogue stones. They are heavy and flat with a hole for tying a line at one end. Drogue stones were the equivalent of a storm anchor on an ancient ship and kept it stable in rough seas. The stones were continually used in ancient times after the possible flood and can be found in places like Israel and the Nile River in Egypt.
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THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The Cosmological Argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God and can basically be summed up by the following logical form:
Premise 1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence.
Premise 2: The universe began to exist.
Conclusion: Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.
Premise 1: States that for everything that has a definite point in time where it begins to exist, there must be a cause or another entity that brings forth that existence. For instance, if you have a seedling growing in your front yard there must have been another plant that initiated that seed that is spouting. Things in our universe just don’t pop into existence from nothing, it is contrary to the reality that we know.
Premise 2: States that our universe has a definite beginning point where it began to exist. We know this by many reasons. First, the Big Bang Theory is evidence that points to this conclusion. Second, one can point to the increasing entropy of the universe, where the universe will eventually run out of usable energy making and infinite past is impossible because entropy would have run out an infinite time ago and we would not be here. Lastly, you can use the argument that Aquinas used in his Second Way that an infinite regression is absurd and doesn’t make sense.
The conclusion ties premise 1 and 2 together. The universe had a beginning, thus it had a cause. Some people take this part as an objection to the Cosmological Argument. They will say that it doesn’t prove the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. Yes, they would be right, it doesn’t. It is not meant to prove there is a God, only a cause sufficient to create the universe. Now, that cause would have some of the attributes of the Judeo-Christian God like all-powerful, timeless, and spaceless just to name a few.
Another objection to the Cosmological Argument is the need for the first cause of the universe to have a cause. The answer to the question, “Who made God?”. I believe that to be a premise that doesn’t take all the facts of the situation into account. Remember in the preceding paragraph that the cause would have the attribute of timelessness? If you are timeless, how do you have a beginning or a cause? There is no time. If you cannot measure with the parameter of time then there is no beginning or end, everything exists in a timeless realm. Something we cannot even begin to comprehend, and we exclude from this kind of philosophical discussion.
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