“In the first moments after matter and energy were created, the world was shapeless and needed to be molded, carved, and then sandpapered” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 35). … [Read more...]
From Absolute Nuffin
“Creatio ex nihilo is a fancy way of saying creation from zip, zilch, nada, nuffin, and is therefore a foundational doctrine. On top of that it is an in-your-face doctrine. If we cannot deny it outright like some militant atheist, we would still like to background it somehow. The … [Read more...]
We Are Good at Concealing Our Helplessness
“Extended periods of time do not really solve the actual problem, but they do solve the apparent problem. The apparent problem is that we cannot account for all the staggering impossibilities assembling themselves into intricate organisms of exquisite design, and so we sweep … [Read more...]
Because God Didn’t Use Focus Groups
“One of the reasons we want millions of years to process everything is that we don’t want to deal with the raw sovereignty on display when God simply creates a male peacock—in a display not only of divine sovereignty but also of dubious taste. Completely overdone” … [Read more...]
In Other Words, Way Ridonkulous
“There is no way to have law without a lawgiver, design without a designer, engineering without an engineer, creation without a Creator. And so they opt for the incredible hypothesis that the immense complexity that we call organic life managed to fall up the stairs, assembling … [Read more...]
And Then Some
“The only problem with the phrase intelligent design is that it is one of history’s most grotesque understatements” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26). … [Read more...]
The Real Issue
“But if [God]—approximately six thousand years ago, give or take a couple of weeks—made the aardvarks and anteaters, and little yellow canaries, and giraffes, and koala bears, pretty much as we see them today, then we have to come to grips [with the fact] that we are living in … [Read more...]
Because Boots Are Intelligently Designed
“But it is He that has made us and not we ourselves. We did not, and could not have, fetched ourselves out of the primordial slime by lifting ourselves by our own bootstraps. Amoebae don’t have boots, for starters. Moreover, they never did” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 26). … [Read more...]
On Whom All Other Facts Depend
“God is the absolute fact” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 24). … [Read more...]
One or the Other
“Either time and chance acting on matter is the ultimate reality, or the cosmos is contingent and created, and it is here because God put it here” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 21). … [Read more...]
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