Absolutely brilliant???? Oh come on. It was cute but not brilliant. Any fool could have said it. Now don't go reporting me TMT or NP. I'm not saying NP is a fool anymore than he was saying I was a fool by because I believe there is a God.
First of all, don't hassle the man just because he recognizes genius when he reads it.
Second, if you're not calling me a fool, then why did you cite that particular piece of Scripture in the first place? What, if anything, was your point?
Once again, you leave half of what the post was meaning out. I was pointing out what was meant by the Proverb.
Sounds to me like you wanted to call Atheists fools, but decided to hide behind the Bible to do it.
Well, number one reason is because God says so and secondly, they miss out on the benefits that He has for them. Those two cover most of the reasons.
And here we're back to the old "The Bible floated down from Heaven with God's ink wet on the pages" canard.
Well just like most jobs it's not all that relevent. One could do their experiments without it. But to ones spiritual state and life it is most benefitial. Just a note here, no one is advocating that the scriptures were written for science only. The scriptures cover a far greater scope than science. Life covers a far greater scope than science.
One could easily claim that the Scriptures were not written for science at all -- so why attempt to apply them there? In spite of the lies you've most likely been fed by various creationists, nobody is trying to use science to replace God, so why use a BibleGod to replace science?
One does not use an Algebra textbook to perform open hear surgery -- use the right tool for the right job.
No, but your prayers could help you to get more understanding of how to do certain things within an experiment. After all, "if it is a known fact that chemical A + chemical B make 97% Chemical C and 3% chemical D" then God would know that because HE made it that way. But if there is something that is NOT a known fact, and I assume that is why you are doing experiments...to find out, then God could give you help and understanding on what to do.
Prayer, however, is not going to take the place of those experiments, nor is it going to alter the outcome of those experiments -- thus changing the natural laws which every theist believes God set in place.
For example, suppose it is a known fact that Chemical X + Chemical Y is going to cause one mother of an explosion -- the kind where you really want to be somewhere else when it happens.
Should you accidentally mix these two chemicals, you might have some time to pray -- to make peace with God. Wouldn't it be presumptuous to demand God stop His own laws of nature just to save your careless self?
God would never do it that way. He doesn't have to. He knows each outcome.
Never? Who are you to tell God what He can, cannot, would, would not do?
A person who trusts in God is never left in the dark. But I suppose this reasoning is a stab at your being faceteous about the subject.
A person who trusts ion God has faith. Faith, however, is a poor substitute for knowledge.
And the idea that God is so interested in minutiae that He will arbitrarily suspend the laws of Nature to suit
your needs is the height of hubris.
That's where you have it backward. It is evolutionists that want to "force fit" God out of everything and Creationists know that to do so would be a gross error and misjustice of truth. God is greater and more infinite than all the science that is, ever has been or ever will be.
And precisely
because He's so great, He doesn't seem to have much interest in trivialities such as physics, gravity, or biology. I say this not from presumption, but from experience.
I drop a rock. It falls straight down.
I drop the same rock 9,999 times. It falls straight down every time.
Now, if we accept the existence of God, then we can say that He can change gravity for that 10,000th drop so that it falls to the left instead of straight down -- you with me so far?
Now, how likely is He to do this? Shall we toss out all predictive power of scientific study -- which has served us well since ancient times -- based on the mere
possibility that God might pull that rock to the left for no reason?
God can muck around with the universe any way He chooses. But the fact that we have personally observed so much order, so many patterns in that universe without change or exception leads to one of two most likely conclusions:
1: There is no God. Or
2: God exists, but really has no interest in mucking about with the universe for no reason.
Which one of these is correct? It really doesn't matter. Science is the unbiased observation of natural phenomena. So long as God doesn't have His thumb on the scales, it really makes no difference whether He's there or not.
Why then, do Creationists insist on shoehorning Him into any situation where an answer is not immediately clear?
