What began as a reply on another blog has evolved (did I use that word?) into a cacophony of thoughts.
I enjoy the absolutist declaration that truth is relative.
Or the empirically untestable assertion that empirical testing is the most reliable source of knowledge.
Or belief in a recent global flood is less credible than asserting that life appeared from a rock
I’m also taken by the notion that reason and logic work because reason and logic prove it.
Or maybe that the random collision of particles can give us the correct account of other random particle collisions
I muse on the proposition that an objective scientist would be willing to be proved wrong about the fact of evolution.
I enjoy reading about how unfalsifiable Intelligent Design theory is not scientific, proven by Dr Kenneth Miller’s falsification of Irreducible Complexity.
I puzzle over the paradoxical debates between Agnostic Pro IDers and Theistic anti IDers
I am edified by the thousands of accounts I have read of personal experiences with omnibenevolent, omniscient, transcendent, creator tooth fairies which lend credence to the notion that they are similar to a belief in God.
And the Flying Spaghetti Monster whose materialist based origins perfectly parody the transcendent qualities of the Judeo Christian God
I enjoy Dawkins’ empirical evidence that religion is a mind virus and am particularly interested in his painstakingly detailed research on the distinction between the atheist and Christian meme.
I’m struck by the loss of data in the genome which provides the proof of how we gained it.
Or how the variation of coloured moths powerfully testifies of common descent.
I am in awe of the thousands of practical scientific advances made as a result of the discovery of common ancestry
I encourage the progress of theoretical physics’ more plausible discovery that we live in 11 dimensions over the doctrine of heaven
I am enamoured by the humility of scientists who honestly declare their ignorance as they move ever closer to a theory of everything.
I delight at the magnificent size of the universe too big for a god down to the tiniest organism too small and simple for a creator
I laugh at the poor design in nature testifying that I understand how God should have created.
I enjoy the intelligently designed computer programmes demonstrating that eye evolution requires no intelligent designer.
I watch as Daniel requires a Maccabean date because it contains predictive prophecy.
I despair as I watch anti religious fundamentalism respond to the perception of religious bigotry with equal dogma and vitriolic abuse.
TRF
