Are religious beliefs eroding like a sand castle on the beach as a tide of new knowledge comes in?

Answer 1

Nope.
I'd say it's more like they're melting like suckers being licked by scientists.

Answer 2

a good analogy...History will reveal; however, that even if this is the case that the tide will receed, allowing new sand castles to be built, as well as old ones repaired and rebuilt. If the Enlightenment didn't destroy religion, I don't see anything scientists or modern intellectuals could discover/come up with being able to accomplish this feat once and for all.

as long as there are beaches there will be sand castles...

Answer 3

The Truth has always been here...
religious beliefs are sand castles in the sand, only to melt away with the tide of the Truth...
eventually...
soon !

but...
you must Create Your Relationship with Our Creator to avoid melting away with religion !

God Blesses people who have Created Their Relationship, after all, it's Our Creator's Will and Our only True goal in Life !

remember:

Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.

Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!

Answer 4

I swear this is true!!! I was reading this question from another post, and I said to myself, "That has to be our little Desi!!", and sure enough, here you are again. OK, dear. What knowledge is this new tide bringing in??

Answer 5

Spoken like a true anti-Christ or r u a closet-cannibal as your poem favors.

Answer 6

Actually it is the theory of macro-evolution that is slowly eroding away as new knowledge comes in. That's why scientists are scrambling to come up with a new and improved theory of macro-evolution called "sudden origins". They know that the old theory is full of holes from the lack of transitional fossils to the complexity of the DNA code and the nature of cells to resist mutations. Here's a link for you to see what I mean.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uop-ppt012506.php

Why does it take an environmental drama to cause mutations? Why don't cells subtly and constantly change in small ways over time, as Darwin suggests?

Cell biologists know the answer: Cells don't like to change and don't do so easily. As Schwartz and Maresca explain: Cells in their ordinary states have suites of molecules-- various kinds of proteins--whose jobs are to eliminate error that might get introduced and derail the functioning of their cell. For instance, some proteins work to keep the cell membrane intact. Other proteins act as chaperones, bringing molecules to their proper locations in the cell, and so on. In short, with that kind of protection from change, it is very difficult for mutations, of whatever kind, to gain a foothold. But extreme stress pushes cells beyond their capacity to produce protective proteins, and then mutation can occur.

This revelation has enormous implications for the notion that organisms routinely change to adapt to the environment. Actually, Schwartz argues, it is the environment that knocks them off their equilibrium and as likely ultimately kills them as changes them. And so they are being rocked by the environment, not adapting to it.

The article's conclusions also have important implications for the notion of "fixing" the environment to protect endangered species. While it is indeed the environment causing the mutation, the resulting organism is in an altogether different environment by the time the novelty finally escapes its recessive state and expresses itself.

"You just can't do a quick fix on the environment to prevent extinction because the cause of the mutation occurred some time in the past, and you don't know what the cause of the stress was at that time," Schwartz said.

"This new understanding of how organisms change provides us with an opportunity to forestall the damage we might cause by unthinking disruption of the environment," added Schwartz. "The Sudden Origins theory, buttressed by modern cell biology, underscores the need to preserve the environment--not only to enhance life today, but to protect life generations from now."

Schwartz, with his colleague Ian Tattersall, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, also authored the four-volume The Human Fossil Record (Wiley-Liss, 2002-05). Together, the volumes represent the first study of the entire human fossil record. Volume 1 was recognized by the Association of American Publishers with its Professional Scholarly Publishing Award. In 1987, Schwartz's The Red Ape: Orang-utans and Human Origin (Houghton Mifflin Company) was met with critical acclaim.

Schwartz, who also is a Pitt professor of the history and philosophy of science, was named a fellow in Pitt's Center for the Philosophy of Science and a fellow of the prestigious World Academy of Arts and Science.


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The journal, The New Anatomist, is an invitation-only supplement to the Anatomical Record.

Click here for full article: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/112349521/PDFSTART

New knowledge isn't eroding the truth of God.

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Answer 7

I sincerely hope so.

Answer 8

Nope, my faith is actually stronger than it has ever been.

Answer 9

I hope so.