Thumbing through any mainstream science magazine and you can see secular dogma laced through the articles.
The only "dogma" they have is to stick with what works, and discard the rest.
Metaphysics is a no-no unless you're trying to disprove God then string theory and multiverses are ok. So are you as critical with them?
Physics and metaphysics are two different topics.
Please now -- you're far too intelligent to play the "See? They do it too!" card. It's beneath you.
Some creationist might have a problem with death and suffering prior to The Fall, but I can't see an argument for mutations and entropy not occurring till after The Fall. With both of these in place the process of Natural Selection is possible pre-fall.
And yet, mutations, entropy, and natural selection are a cornerstone of biology, which in turn, is the foundation for understand life as we currently know it. To call these things unintended byproducts of The Fall leads to the inevitable conclusion that The Fall is as much of a creative force as God Himself, since clearly He never intended for any of it to turn out that way...
That most certainly isn't going to cut it.
I bet if you thought about it you would find that a large portion of your life is decided by feelings.
I don't need to think about it at all -- of course it is.
Your nutritionist says don't eat eat salty foods and you do anyway, it taste good. There's speed limit signs and traffic laws, but you're feeling in a hurry. You take risks with your life, we all do we are more visceral than we like to think. I guess what I'm getting at, are there legitimate reasons for your doubt or are you trying to make sense of a feeling?
Both, of course -- on a visceral level, I have looked at some of those would would presume to call themselves my moral superiors and would-be guides, and find it difficult to believe that they have the Almighty's ear any more than anyone else -- much as they would like to convince me (and everyone else within earshot) -- to the contrary.
On the more rational level, I'm actually quite fascinated with comparative religion and mythology, and have found some striking similarities -- exploring the common thread which runs through most of the world's religions (past and present) makes for fascinating reading.
It always ends up saying more about the followers than God Himself -- theology is less about Divine understanding as it is about the human condition.
The similarities are so striking as to make the differences almost negligible -- while I'm not ready to go full Atheist just yet, I have to come to the conclusion that if there is a God -- eternal and infinite creator of the multiverse -- and if that God indeed wants to be worshiped, He would not allow such a plethora of different means and creeds unless it truly did not matter to Him how He chose to be worshiped. To say otherwise would be to invariably reduce God to -- well, let's just say something not worthy of worship and leave it at that for now.
And so I tend to think on the words of Thomas Paine, "My own mind is my church, the world is my country, to do good is my religion.
If there is a God, let Him be satisfied with that. If there is not, and there is nothing in the universe but what we make, then let us make good.
There are many people who don't see them at odds. I've listed a few in previous posts. Biblically, faith and reason are held in high regards together.
Indeed -- and after far too many debates on boards such as this, I must continually remind myself that what you describe is the rule rather than the exception.
So does the heart accept what the mind accepts? Is your heart simply slave to your mind or is it influential?
Neither of them can be turned off in the name of convenience, if that's what you're getting at.
Don't you have any respect for the biblical genre's of God's word? Reading the wrong thing literally is like reading Shakespeare to learn how to build a space shuttle. It's just plain goofy! You're totally missing the point of the bible the way you read it. No wonder you're embarrassing us Christians in this forum.
