Expelled
For our FSM (Father/Son Meeting) this weekend I took Parker to see Expelled. I thought it was fascinating and funny. Parker and I kept turning to each other and saying "that was random" because of some of the old movie clips they splice in.
Man, this documentary is going to get some people pretty fired up. It took me back to my University of Chicago days where I felt like such an intellectual minority because of my views on the origin of the earth. I was made to feel like a fool for believing in an Intelligent Designer. But listen, everybody has to account for the first cause. How in the world did organic life come from inorganic primordial soup? And where did the soup come from? Honestly, I don't know how you can look at a strand of DNA and doubt an Intelligent Designer. Random chance or Intelligent Design? Ironically, I think it takes more faith to believe in Random Chance.
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wow.
my dad and i went to it on friday night too.
it was mostly 40-60yr olds.
and at the end the crowd all clapped.
i thought the ending was inspiring.
I was particularly surprised at what Richard Dawkins admitted to in the final interview. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who has yet to see it, but WOW!
Great movie, I agree with you that it takes more faith to believe in random chance.
With Dawkins it is laughable that he would rather say the design came from aliens... anything but God.
But if there's an Intelligent Designer, who created that?
At some point, something had to be created from nothing or it had to exist forever.
And if you believe God can exist forever without being created, why not the Universe?
How about God and the Universe being the same thing? Existing forever and everything being part of the one thing.
Andronicus,
A few thoughts...
In his book, Can a Smart Person Believe in God, Michael Guillen says there are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe in God and those who believe in something else. He makes what I think is a valid point: everybody believes in something. We just have different objects of faith. Most people who don’t believe in the God of the Bible believe in what Michael Guillen calls the god of randomness.
It boils down to this. We only have two causalogical options: either we put our faith in the god of random chance or we put our faith in the God of intelligent design.
Hebrews 11:3 says, "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command." It takes faith to believe in the existence of God. You can’t prove or disprove the existence of God. It takes faith to believe in the God of Intelligent Design. But it also takes faith to believe in the god of random chance. In fact, I think it takes more faith.
I love the way astronomer, Sir Fred Hoyle, said it to the British Academy of Science years ago. He said, "Let’s be scientifically honest. The probability of life arising to greater and greater complexity by chance through evolution is the same probability as having a tornado tear through a junkyard and form a Boeing 747 jetliner."
Hoyle calculated the chances of life being the result of random chance as being 1 in 10 to the 40,000 power. I think sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that religion involves faith and science doesn’t. The truth is that everybody puts their faith in something they can’t prove.
My two cents,
Mark
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