Dear Tomas, wether you believe in God or not, you don't see the real reason for religion. How can you live beeing sure that one day you will die and become nothing?!?
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I noticed that individuals working in intellectually demanding occupations such as scientists programmers etc ... are almost always non-believers ... It is a sign of something....dont you think so?
This is a common portrayal of Christians and of course a misconception. The blackboard said creation science but the teacher was not teaching any kind of science.
Creation science is not the teaching of the Bible any more then macro evolutionary science is the teaching of atheism. They each, however, support their own cause. Let me explain.
The difference between the two is the assumptions that each one makes. One side examines the facts and interprets them from the view that all things were once created by by an omniscient God. The other side examines the same facts and interprets them from the view that there is no God and that all matter and energy mysteriously came together perfectly as a first cause of our current ordered universe and again came together to begin life.
So, it comes down to this. What is the first cause? This is a universal law. All things must have a first cause. To reiterate, the facts are the same for both sides, it is the assumptions made before reviewing the facts that determine the theories and conclusions made from the facts.
This is why it is important to teach our children from more than one perspective. To give them opportunity to see both sides. Otherwise you make them all robots.
Now from a religious perspective, just to clarify, when God made all things it was very good. Death and disease did not come into the world until it was cursed because of man's anti God actions. To be one with God is life, to reject him is the way to death. This is seen in the second law of thermodynamics also known as entropy. All things are winding down in the universe. This is because God is now withholding the energy he put into creation to let it die out. It has been spoiled.
So now I ask you. Do you see life being created by itself today? Do you see matter and energy mysteriously appearing from out of nothing? Of course not! This is the first law of thermodynamics, the conservation of matter and energy. But as I stated above, they are winding down to a point of rest.
Conclusion:
Atheists and humanists have been successful in gaining controlling influence in the education systems throughout the world over time, especially in the U.S. in the last 200 years. Through intimidation and ridicule of Christians they have persuaded politicians to remove any references to the Bible and specifically Christian aspects from the education systems. If you read the Humanist Manifesto (Google it) you will see that this was their stated purpose from the start. So, yes, a conspiracy of sorts is why we have what we have today.
History, however, does show that those peoples and nations that believed and respected God throughout the ages and followed the Bibles teachings prospered. You can see this especially in the history of the U.S. and the divine providence the founders so often spoke of.
The effects of atheism and humanism in this country are reflected in the waning prosperity we now see. At the root of the conspiracy is not the atheist or humanist but rather the first being to break away from God. Lucifer, the angel of light, successfully convinced a third of the angels to go against God. Now, we fight not only against what we see but against principalities, and spirits in another realm of existence. They put thoughts into our heads to go along with them against God. Every day we have to make a choice to do the right thing or not.
This is where the most offensive cross comes in. Yes, everyone must face it at one time or another. You will look at it and curse God, or you will examine yourself and see that God emptied Himself to become human to show us how to live and to save us from spiritual death by taking our punishment for our anti God behavior. He rescued us in Jesus the Christ. He died a spiritual death as well and in that spiritual realm let Lucifer know He had given us a way back to being one with Him.
This is what God wants with us, fellowship, to be one. People point to the Lord's prayer as the 'Our Father, who art in heaven, etc.' but this was a model only. Jesus' prayer started with His disciples thanking the Father for them and asking that they be one with Him and the Father and then goes on to say not only these but all others whom the disciple bring to Him.
Work out you own salvation, whether you believe it or not, you cannot live without out it. "He who has the Son has life, he who has not the Son is dead already."
That "teacher", a christian or not is not qualified to stand behind a black board or rather, in front of any student at all.
I'll do you the favor of recommending CHRISTIANS you should use as teachers for your "cartoon mockery".
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John Lennox
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Mathematician and Pastoral adviser. His works include the mathematical The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups and the religion-oriented God's Undertaker - Has Science buried God? He has also debated religion with Richard Dawkins. He teaches at Oxford.
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Christopher Isham
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Theoretical physicist who developed HPO formalism. He teaches at Imperial College London, part of which is pictured to the side. In addition to being a physicist, he is a philosopher and theologian.
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Denis Alexander
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Director of the Faraday Institute and author of Rebuilding the Matrix - Science and Faith in the 21st Century. He also supervises a research group in cancer and immunology at the Babraham Institute.
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John D. Barrow
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An English cosmologist who did notable writing on the implications of the Anthropic principle. He is a United Reformed Church member and Christian deist. He won the Templeton Prize in 2006. He once held the position of Gresham Professor of Astronomy.
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Francis Collins
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He is the current director of the National Institutes of Health and former director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute. He has also written on religious matters in articles and in Faith and the Human Genome he states the importance to him of "the literal and historical Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which is the cornerstone of what I believe." He wrote the book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
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Eric Priest
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An authority on Solar Magnetohydrodynamics who won the George Ellery Hale Prize among others. He has spoken on Christianity and Science at the University of St Andrews and is a member of the Faraday Institute. An image from St. Andrews is shown. He is also interested in prayer, meditation, and Christian psychology.
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Donald Knuth
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(Lutheran) The Art of Computer Programming and 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (1991), ISBN 0-89579-252-4
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Ghillean Prance
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A noted botanist involved in the Eden Project. He is also the current President of Christians in Science.
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Michał Heller
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He is a Catholic priest, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.' He also is a mathematical physicist who has written articles on relativistic physics and Noncommutative geometry. His cross-disciplinary book Creative Tension: Essays on Science and Religion came out in 2003. For this work he won a Templeton Prize. He teaches at Kraków.
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R. J. Berry
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He is a former president of both the Linnean Society of London and the Christians in Science group. He also wrote God and the Biologist: Personal Exploration of Science and Faith (Apollos 1996) ISBN 0-85111-446-6 As he taught at University College London for over 20 years.
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John Polkinghorne
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British particle physicist and Anglican priest who wrote Science and the Trinity (2004) ISBN 0-300-10445-6. Winner of the 2002 Templeton Prize.
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Antonino Zichichi
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Italian nuclear physicist and former President of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. He has worked with the Vatican on relations between the Church and Science.
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Allan Sandage
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An astronomer who did not really study Christianity until after age forty. He wrote the article A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief and made discoveries concerning the Cigar Galaxy.
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Freeman Dyson
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He has won the Lorentz Medal, the Max Planck Medal, and the Lewis Thomas Prize. He also ranked 25th in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll. He has won the Templeton Prize and delivered one of the Gifford Lectures.
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Charles Hard Townes
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n 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1966 he wrote The Convergence of Science and Religion.
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Degrees, Honors, and Position are no proof of brains. George W. Bush taught us this.
Show me your double-blind experiment to prove the existence of this God. I would especially like to get a long look at your control universe without a God in it.
The Big Three Western Religions, or Jehovans, as I like to call them, all enshrine behaviors passed down from the great apes. They wage war, the Big Three tell us how to do it in a holy fashion. Theft of territory, rape, slaughtering your neighbor's children; it's all in there. Iraq's children got mangled and mutilated in droves, by our arrogantly proud Christian nation, the same one that tells me that abortion is killing babies. Pardon me if I am unimpressed by all the fake f***ing morality. I will concede only ONE possible improvement on ape behaviors to religion. I don't think that any of the Jehovan faiths actively condone EATING your neighbor's children. With that one exception, we are still baboons with fancier tools.
My own personal beliefs are that all religions, including the ones I used to espouse, are just the byproducts of having brains that consist of a poorly-regulated chemical soup in a poorly-maintained and protected matrix of fat. I propose that all supernatural and "divine" events could be explained by bio-chemical misfires, and basic con-jobs by the powerful. -L
ike Sarah Palin saying that God wants a gas pipeline across Alaska. I would have thought that if there were a God, all-powerful, as advertised, that he could create his own damned gas pipeline.
The real wonder and majesty of the universe is still out there waiting for us, and we have, as a species, manifestly chickened-out on exploring it, or even facing it. Science gave us a tool to face it, but fortunately, we are being rescued from Science by the same load of apes that are killing any real Liberty. I don't know how it is in other parts of the world, but this country (USA) is on its way to interacting with technology like a Cargo Cult, and having a populace with a fine, politically correct, Biblical, Bronze-Age understanding of the world.
To the religious: have fun in your echo chamber. Just because you are more numerous, due to breeding like flies, doesn't make you right.
