The Unasked Question & the Possibility of a Creator
1.
“Never
fight a battle
when nothing is
gained by
winning.”
2.
“No one
is thinking if
everyone is
thinking
alike.”
3.
“Know what you
know and know
what you do not
know.”
(Taken
from
“Patton’s
Principles” by
Porter B.
Williamson)
Having
been on both
sides of the
pulpit, let me
voice my strong
disapproval of
the “god
wars!” Science
is one of the
chief
battlegrounds in
this warfare.
General Patton
certainly knew
something about
warfare. I have
inserted three
of his
principles here
in hope that
common sense
might take hold
and that we
would stop
sabotaging our
kids scientific
educations due
to the
secular/religious
partisanship.
This essay would
be a follow up
to my:
Contrarian
Viewpoints...
Part 2: Creation
vs. Evolution
The
big bang theory
has been
falsified!
Science has been
deafly silent
about this. Why?
Are they keeping
a secret from
us, or can they
not definitively
speak about
origins?
The
big bang is THE
secular theory
about why we are
here. If you
want to have fun
with a
non-theist press
them for an
answer about
origins. Chances
are that they
will always
answer it all
began with the
big bang. When
they are
stripped of this
possibility for
an answer….you
usually get
silence. The
right answer
here is that we
do not know!
Some might
say we have
always been
here, but
isn’t this
just conjecture?
Science has
proven that
there has been
life upon earth
for millions of
years, but they
haven’t
established with
certainty if
there was a
point of
beginning and
how this would
have happened.
This would have
been a long time
ago; could we
truly ever know?
These last two
paragraphs refer
to Patton’s
principle of
knowing what we
do not know.
Humankind’s
presence upon
the earth for
millions of
years rules the
“young earth
creationist’s”
God of the Bible
out of the
equation. If
science could
establish with
certainty that
the earth has
always been
here; this would
do irreparable
damage to
religion. In
this scenario,
armed with the
knowledge that
the earth has
always been here
science could
kill religion if
it wanted to.
But this
hasn’t
happened!
The
unasked question
is simply this,
“How did we
get here?”
Science has a
most important
question to
answer. With
no definitive
answer at this
point in
history, we
cannot rule out
the possibility
of a creator.
This
is another
reason why I am
not an atheist.
But don’t
confuse me for
one looking for
“God,” I
have already
been there and
done that as an
ex-minister.
What I do know
is that there
are several man
made books with
the pretense
that they are
derived from
God. I’ve
studied the
Bible and there
isn’t anything
about it that
prompts me to
believe in a
god; in fact it
indicates to me
that I
shouldn’t! It
is equally as
foolish to take
the message of a
“Holy Book”
and turn it into
a textbook of
science.
Science
hasn’t killed
God, nor has it
established one
either. This
is what we know!
So lets stop the
foolish fighting
and teach what
we do know
rather than a
controversy!
There is a
wealth of wisdom
contained within
these three
principles that
theists and
non-theists
would do well to
heed! Patton
loved to fight,
but not
foolishly!
Brian
Worley
Ex-Minister.org September 24, 2009
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