04/19/08 9:27AM

I always thought I didn't have enough passionate thoughts to generate a consistent blog. I guess I was wrong. To be fair, here are the comments I've made addressing others thoughts.

Perhaps if America had adopted this policy of prevention intervention before the Third Reich was big enough to start a monumental, catastrophic conflict, WW II would never have happened. [x]

I want everyone to come home, too, but I cannot get over this incredibly small world we live in. The possibility of nuclear weapons has made our defenses obsolete. Isolationsim was an effective policy when vast oceanic boundaries, huge numbers of men, and vast amounts of industrial technology were considered unbeatable defenses, but all of that is nothing compared to a couple of nukes that may land in the wrong hands. [x

i think gamble should have his own political blog

Some of your arguments were sustained but I still don't know how you can go out of your way to oppose a movie like that of Ben Stein's. For one, it hasn't even come out yet and there are already many assumptions being made that it is a "croc of s@#&," as a group on facebook put it. Also, apart from solely defending the idea of the earth being a product of God, the movie also seems to address the fact that legitimate scientists are being black listed for even suggesting something different than the current status quo. In this respect, the movie deserves some recognition. Are we to return to a time like when the Catholic church ran the world and threw Galileo in jail for even suggesting that the earth was not the center of the universe? Is the new governing body a group of atheists who would react with harsh and violent words to anyone who even dares to challenge Darwin? I would hope not, but it seems to be heading in that direction. [x]

I am not knowledgable enough to make the claim that evolutionary theory is its own croc of s@#$, but I am prepared to say that it is more logical to believe in a God. That is my point in meeting with people like Durrell Dobbins and David Aiken. I want to know if my assumption that God is more logical than nothing is substantiated. I also think that great scientists who see God in their studies cannot be ignored. Certainly people like Alister McGrath, Francis Collins, and Stephen Meyer are not idiots and they have found reasons to believe. [x]

A couple more points, I'm sorry. To say that Christians are the only violent ones when it comes to this subject is false. A couple of examples include Dawkins suggesting to foricbly remove children form God fearing homes and the first girl to post in the group on facebook said that her "hands were shaking too much in anger..." to even create an anti-expelled group. [x]

One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war. - Francis Collins [x]

The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason? - Francis Collins [x]
squirreltale This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. - Francis Collins [x]

There are more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. - Isaac Newton [x]

I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over beasts for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from dust and to dust they rerurn. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him? - Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 [x]

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. My son, beware of anything beyond these. OF MAKING MANY BOOKS THERE IS NO END, AND MUCH STUDY IS A WEARINESS OF THE FLESH. THE END OF THE MATTER; ALL HAS BEEN HEARD. FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. - Ecclesiastes 12:11-13 [x]

Wow! I dont know if this was your original intention, but as I have found recently when defending my faith to other skeptics, I am amazed everytime at the overwhelming evidence for God and His system. Not only do I come across respected phD's who convincingly defend the creator, all along I only have to look to the Bible to find the same eveidence. I can't find the quote I was originally looking for but it said something like..."after all strivings we will reach the meaning of our existence only to find our spiritual fathers sitting there waiting on us." Thanks, Unlap, for prodding me to find what I knew all along...that God has already answered all of these questions. [x]

http://expelledthemovie.com/bigscienceacademy_clas s_officers.php [x]

...I'm builiding on the case brought forth by the late Stephen Jay Gould in his book "Rocks of Ages" when he makes the point that although in his case he was an atheist, he was not an atheist because of his science. His atheism was already there, he brought it to his science. Gould says that science by its legitimate methods cannot adjudicate the God question. Certainly, we can read nature in an atheist way, we can read nature in an agnostic way, we can read nature in a Christian way, but nature in and of itself does not force us to any of those positions. I will simply say that as I found my Christian faith it gave me new intellectual energy to engage the natural order and to learn more... - Alister McGrath [x]

Nice follow up to the previous post. I obviously felt pretty passionate about that area of discussion. The quotes were all things I have found while doing my own research. I know of maybe three Christians who can say they have their own phD in Biology and done their own experiments to aid the Creation movement. So, until I can say that myself, I must consign myself to the respected opinions of some leading, theist, scientists. [x]

I do want to address what you said about "creationism is true because my life is not meaningless." Im guessing that was directed at my point about how it is not logical or scientific to think of something coming from nothing. I think we moved on from this point in seventh grade when we learned how Franceso Redi proved that life must come from other life. I just don't think it fits with science to admit that the universe had a beginning and then make the next jump to say the early elements just happened to be there. Let's apply our little blue Logic books we received in Evolution 430. Lets apply Occam's Razor and I believe we find that Creation by a Being powerfully outside of the system is credible. In short, it just makes sense. [x]

I don't remember anyone saying "science doesn't matter," but I heartily disagree with that statement if it was made. Science, along with all areas of study should be welcome by the Christian. If we truly believe in God, let us show no fear in the face of any form of acedemia. It will all lead to Him in the end. I was pleasantly surprised to find the quote from Ecclesiastes. It seemed the write of that book may have struggled with the very issue we are talking about. He wondered if we were anything more than animals and concluded that we are, but only because of God's grace. [x]