Faith in God is a result of thought , faith is because we have not seen God but we understand in our minds the existence of such a one.So it is not a result of not thinking, but only of not seeing God, but we do use many things, in part based on sight or other experiences, intellectual or sensual(sight, sound, smell, taste,touch) that lead the mind in its operations to the conclusion not that things do not have a maker, but that they do. In this everyone agrees, and so we see that reason and experience lead all men to the conclusion that there is a maker and it is erroneous to say that belief in God is irrational. Reason naturally leads to the conclusion there is a cause, there is a reason(implying intelligent design), there is a maker. No one can argue with this unless ignorant of the truth and facts of reason and history. The debate which has been misconstrued is about what the maker is, for a maker , a reason, a cause are equally necessary
The evolutionist or God denier, will say that the maker or makers are atoms, or little organisms or bacterias built up upon one another coming into unison to create a greater whole, more than the sum of its parts, so although they deny biblical creation, they do believe in cause,makerand reason for it,in this case atoms .The reason may be the physical behavior of the components that do it, but still it is a reason
2007-02-17
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