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See page 6 of May 'Direction' magazine - free today in Elim Pentecostal churches - see http://www.elim.org.uk
It takes apart Channel 4 TV's pathetic attack on Bible-believers as fools who shouldn't run schools: here's a few highlights to whet your appetite...
Docu 'The New Fundamentalists' darkly described the 'evangelical extreme - militant & growing' - without defining its meaning of 'evangelical extreme'
Yet it cited Elim's Kensington Temple & Teen Challenge - 2 of the most sucessful institutions in their respective fields
Its irrational attack highlighted perhaps 2 of the most important issues facing Christians in UK today: the origin of the universe/humanity & the basis of morality - specifically, sexual morality
Presenter Rod Liddle had a penchant for imagery, likening a belief in creationism to a belief that a person is made of cheese
He must be dyslexic - the Bible does not say Edam & Eve :roll:
But talk of cheese reminds me that the belief that the world arose by chance is crackers :angel:
Comments like Liddle's reflect the growing animosity towards the Bible's message & are sure counter-productive to a balanced, reasoned debate
Nobel prize-winning biologist, Christian de Duve, says, "There is no sense in which atheism is enforced or established by science"
One of the world's leading atheists, Prof Anthony Flew, has now stated that he can no longer believe that life began by chance
Even arch-atheist proselytiser, Oxford Prof Richard Dawkins, whose recent Channel 4 2-part docu falsely slandered all religion as "The Root Of All Evil", is on record admitting that all species look as if they were designed for a purpose
Similarly, atheistic apologist Prof Richard Lewontin has said, "It's not as if the evidence compels us...it's simply that we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door"
The recent magazine, 'Design Revolution: The Delusion Of Evolution', see page 9, produced by New Life Publishing, in response to the highly successful UK lecture tour, 'Darwin Revisited', by Dr Adrian Snelling & Professor Phil Johnson, says in its editorial that neo-Darwinism is a house of cards rapidly crumbling, yet academia, which prides itself on freedom of thought, sinisterly censors out all criticism of microbes-to-man, goo-to-you evolutionary theory
It says that if it was subject to the same rigourous investigation as real science, it would be rejected - as hundreds of top scientists, from micro-biology to astronomy, have seen so much evidence of Intelligent Design that they reject the atheistic brainwashing of their school/college/uni days & now worship the Almighty Creator
As 'Direction' says today, in reality, there is an increasing acceptance of the fact that the world is so incredibly, unimaginably complex that you'd have to be bonkers to think it arose by chance
Ask a scientist how the first cell came about & he'll be hazy - DNA is amazingly programmed
Ask how the physical laws on which science depends came about
No-one knows
& anyone who says they do hasn't published their paper in Nature magazine yet!
In fact, modern science struggles to explain the fine-tuning of the universe for our existence, as well as how life could begin by chance
If Earth were marginally nearer the sun, it would fry
Marginally further away, it would be a lifeless ice cube
If the forces binding atoms together were slightly less, they would disintegrate
If slightly more, they would explode
Fred Hoyle, one of the world's leading scientists in research into primordial processes, found the whole idea of life arising by chance so improbable that he denounced atheism in favour of purposeful design
"The probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make the random concept absurd"
There's another 1.5 pages of the article, but I must go
Just 5 mins to highlight Dr Francis Schaeffer, on page 8
The docu denounced Christians for believing in a personal God...Yet our Heaveny Father is the only real basis for reasoned morality
Schaeffer says, "With the Christian answer, it is now possible to understand that there are true moral absolutes
"There is no law behind God, because the furthest thing back is God. The moral absolutes rest on God's character. The creation as He originally made it conformed to His character
"The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men, as created in His image, are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral"
Must go
God bless!
Ian
See page 6 of May 'Direction' magazine - free today in Elim Pentecostal churches - see http://www.elim.org.uk
It takes apart Channel 4 TV's pathetic attack on Bible-believers as fools who shouldn't run schools: here's a few highlights to whet your appetite...
Docu 'The New Fundamentalists' darkly described the 'evangelical extreme - militant & growing' - without defining its meaning of 'evangelical extreme'
Yet it cited Elim's Kensington Temple & Teen Challenge - 2 of the most sucessful institutions in their respective fields
Its irrational attack highlighted perhaps 2 of the most important issues facing Christians in UK today: the origin of the universe/humanity & the basis of morality - specifically, sexual morality
Presenter Rod Liddle had a penchant for imagery, likening a belief in creationism to a belief that a person is made of cheese
He must be dyslexic - the Bible does not say Edam & Eve :roll:
But talk of cheese reminds me that the belief that the world arose by chance is crackers :angel:
Comments like Liddle's reflect the growing animosity towards the Bible's message & are sure counter-productive to a balanced, reasoned debate
Nobel prize-winning biologist, Christian de Duve, says, "There is no sense in which atheism is enforced or established by science"
One of the world's leading atheists, Prof Anthony Flew, has now stated that he can no longer believe that life began by chance
Even arch-atheist proselytiser, Oxford Prof Richard Dawkins, whose recent Channel 4 2-part docu falsely slandered all religion as "The Root Of All Evil", is on record admitting that all species look as if they were designed for a purpose
Similarly, atheistic apologist Prof Richard Lewontin has said, "It's not as if the evidence compels us...it's simply that we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door"
The recent magazine, 'Design Revolution: The Delusion Of Evolution', see page 9, produced by New Life Publishing, in response to the highly successful UK lecture tour, 'Darwin Revisited', by Dr Adrian Snelling & Professor Phil Johnson, says in its editorial that neo-Darwinism is a house of cards rapidly crumbling, yet academia, which prides itself on freedom of thought, sinisterly censors out all criticism of microbes-to-man, goo-to-you evolutionary theory
It says that if it was subject to the same rigourous investigation as real science, it would be rejected - as hundreds of top scientists, from micro-biology to astronomy, have seen so much evidence of Intelligent Design that they reject the atheistic brainwashing of their school/college/uni days & now worship the Almighty Creator
As 'Direction' says today, in reality, there is an increasing acceptance of the fact that the world is so incredibly, unimaginably complex that you'd have to be bonkers to think it arose by chance
Ask a scientist how the first cell came about & he'll be hazy - DNA is amazingly programmed
Ask how the physical laws on which science depends came about
No-one knows
& anyone who says they do hasn't published their paper in Nature magazine yet!
In fact, modern science struggles to explain the fine-tuning of the universe for our existence, as well as how life could begin by chance
If Earth were marginally nearer the sun, it would fry
Marginally further away, it would be a lifeless ice cube
If the forces binding atoms together were slightly less, they would disintegrate
If slightly more, they would explode
Fred Hoyle, one of the world's leading scientists in research into primordial processes, found the whole idea of life arising by chance so improbable that he denounced atheism in favour of purposeful design
"The probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make the random concept absurd"
There's another 1.5 pages of the article, but I must go
Just 5 mins to highlight Dr Francis Schaeffer, on page 8
The docu denounced Christians for believing in a personal God...Yet our Heaveny Father is the only real basis for reasoned morality
Schaeffer says, "With the Christian answer, it is now possible to understand that there are true moral absolutes
"There is no law behind God, because the furthest thing back is God. The moral absolutes rest on God's character. The creation as He originally made it conformed to His character
"The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men, as created in His image, are to live by choice on the basis of what God is. The standards of morality are determined by what conforms to His character, while those things which do not conform are immoral"
Must go
God bless!
Ian