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“The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure (and, one might add, poor) fiction. To call it science-fiction would besmirch the name of science.”
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
“God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence – why there is something rather than nothing.”
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
“What is consciousness?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he replied, after a little hesitation. “Never mind,” I said. “Let’s think of something easier. What is energy?” “Well,” he said, “we can measure it and write down the equations governing its conservation.” “Yes, I know, but that was not my question. My question was: what is it?” “We don’t know,” he said with a grin, “and I think you were aware of that.” “Yes, like you I have read Feynman and he says that no one knows what energy is. That brings me to my main point. Would I be right in thinking that you were about to dismiss me (and my belief in God) if I failed to explain the divine and human nature of Christ?” He grinned again, and said nothing. I went on: “Well, by the same token, would you be happy if I now dismiss you and all your knowledge of physics because you cannot explain to me the nature of energy? After all, energy is surely by definition much less complex than the God who created it?” “Please don’t!” he said. “No, I am not going to do that, but I am going to put another question to you: why do you believe in the concepts of consciousness and energy, even though you do not understand them fully? Is it not because of the explanatory power of those concepts?” “I see what you are driving at,” he replied. “You believe that Jesus Christ is both God and man because that is the only explanation that has the power to make sense of what we know of him?” “Exactly.”
― Against the Flow: The inspiration of Daniel in an age of relativism
― Against the Flow: The inspiration of Daniel in an age of relativism
“Rejoice in the hope. Endure under tribulation. Persevere in prayer. -Romans 12:12”
― New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
― New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
“To the majority of those who have reflected deeply and written about the origin and nature of the universe, it has seemed that it points beyond itself to a source which is non-physical and of great intelligence and power.”
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
― God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
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