tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post2541770389022175759..comments2023-10-09T09:11:20.120-05:00Comments on Tom Wolff's Blog: Darwinism’s Fairytalestom wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15045360985467575407noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-66531501248297535852008-09-11T19:51:00.000-05:002008-09-11T19:51:00.000-05:00Hello, and welcome back to the fray! Sorry I'm beh...Hello, and welcome back to the fray! Sorry I'm behind in getting to your posts, but i didn't realize the game was back on yet...<BR/><BR/>You belittle fairy tales, but then list several that you yourself cling to. You have called similar tales of miracles from other religions, "myths," then taken umbrage when I apply that term to Christianity. You take offense when I lump Christianity in with other religions, but refuse to see how it contains really cool bits and pieces from other religions, a practice of borrowing that continues to this day. <BR/><BR/>You say evolutionists believe in fairy tales, but then offer us a wizard little different than Merlin, Gandalf, or Dumbledore waving his hands and making something out of nothing... not even water, rocks, and lightning. By not taking a step back, you can't see how the stories and claims of Christianity follow some of the best and most classic storytelling patterns of history. <BR/><BR/>Then you labor all day in the fields to grow enough straw to fill your men, and make excuses when God does not make them stand up and walk.<BR/><BR/>You use the beaver as an example of a designer, and this is wisdom, because if we were designed, it was by Someone with no more design talent than a beaver. Yes, the beaver dam works, after a fashion, but it's not even St. Anthony Falls, let alone the Grand Coulee or Hoover.<BR/><BR/>If this world and its life was designed, then it was by a hesitant and shaky Hand. Several times has life been nearly wiped off this planet. Trial and Error seems to be the favoured design model. A God with so little confidence in Himself inspires little confidence or enthusiasm from me.<BR/><BR/>And it's not like some of His other creations have worked out so good either. The Seraphim, designed by God for the sole purpose of defending God, managed to instead produce Lucifer. Ooops. Maybe they (or at least one of them) got tired of circling God and telling him what a swell guy he was. After all, such a powerful God couldn't possibly be truly threatened by anything, thus negating their designed purpose. That God still has them uselessly flying around singing His praises instead of doing any real work, tells us that maybe God has some self-esteem issues.<BR/><BR/>All-in-all, God seems to be the ultimate Rube Goldberg designer. First it took him billions of years to cook the universal soup enough just to form the Earth. Then he had to fiddle with the Earth itself, including melting it back to slag once, before he got the recipe right to support his weird version of life. Then he came close to ruining the soup multiple times over a few billion more years. Then he designed MILLIONS of forms of life that were so flawed they couldn't survive for more than a few million years each. He couldn't even get us to walk upright until the tenth or eleventh try. <BR/><BR/>Today, we are still so full of flaws that we require very precise conditions just to survive. We have parts we don't need, can't use, and gum up the rest of the works when they go bad. We have parts that spin out of control or break well before their warranty date, and the answers we get to our Tech Support questions are murkier than Japanese stereo instructions, when we get an answer at all. If God was the CEO of Volvo, he'd be flipping burgers at Wendy's by now.<BR/><BR/>I believe MIT has issued several design papers that improve on most of God's major projects, and THEY have to obey the Laws of Physics!<BR/><BR/>So there. Guess I told you.<BR/><BR/>Hugs'n'kisses to kids and kittens!<BR/>~E~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8076218417451364964.post-83593226072695687992008-08-19T21:07:00.000-05:002008-08-19T21:07:00.000-05:00All I can say is AMEN!bryAll I can say is AMEN!<BR/><BR/>bryBryan Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377555104226944323noreply@blogger.com