Feb
5
Will Not Do?
Filed Under Devotional
Is it just me? Why do these stances by the super-intelligent make this country boy’s head want to split? I guess I should just stop reading this stuff, but I have the feeling that one of these days a mind will change.
Richard Dawkins, distinguished professor of zoology at Oxford University is speaking here and I thought he almost got it!
“The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less can we believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an Intelligent Designer.” Yes, Richard, yes, yes, yes! Strike up the band and set off the fireworks. The man sees the obvious!
And then total blind faith kicks in, and I mean blind to the highest order.
“I am afraid I shall give God rather short shrift. He may have many virtues: no doubt he is invaluable as a pricker of the conscience and a comfort to the dying and bereaved, but as an explanation of organized complexity he simply will not do. It is organized complexity we are trying to explain, so it is footling to invoke in explanation a being sufficiently organized and complex to create it.”
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2
God will not do, Richard?
I need an Advil.