The Search for Truth: Is Science Losing Ground to Religion?
Growing Concern Over an Increasing Disregard for Scientific Findings and Facts
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The above article and link asks some interesting questions for believers. How do we balance faith and science? Or maybe better yet, faith and knowledge?
Dye agrees that discussion between the two is possible and profitable.
There is a fundamental difference between faith and belief. Faith goes beyond what I can adequate prove. Faith is belief in the unseen, the unexplained.
For example creationism and evolution both require faith because neither can be adequately proven. The scientific method requires observation and without it the origin of the universe is unknown. If I believe that an infinite, all powerful, all knowning God created the world it requires an equal amoung of faith as compared to believing in a universe begun by a big bang. Neither was observed.
Now Christians accept the Bible to be a collection of reliable documents, and fall back on them for answers of faith.
''Wait, wait, wait. Is that a Members Only jacket?''
Coach Taylor (Kyle Chandler), to Matt (Zach Gilford), who has shown up for a date with the Coach's Daughter, on Friday Night Lights.
''Many mothers are disappointed that the Yellow Wiggle, Greg Page, is leaving the children's music group the Wiggles, as they see him as a major sex symbol. Also disappointing these women: their husbands.''
Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live
''I'm fine. My nose is just overflowing with awesome, and I had to get some of it out.''
Barney (Neil Partick Harris), denying that he has a bad cold, on How I Met Your Mother.
''Trust me, Bart — it's better to walk in on both your parents than on just one of them.''
Milhouse, to Bart, after Bart saw his parents getting busy, on The Simpsons.
The United Church of Canada launched a $10.5 million ad c
ampaign that directs people to a web-site (http://wondercafe.ca/) where the hope is that discussion and questions can be asked in response to Jesus and his followers. The ads have been seen as racy and push the boundaries of religious rights and wrongs.
I personally think they are genius ideas.
This makes me laugh. Our greed and selfishness ruin anything of value and beauty.
Is it sad that I laugh at this?
-T-
“Perhaps the best way to perceive the “underdog” nature of the incarnation is to transpose it into terms we can relate to today. An unwed mother, homeless, was forced to look for shelter while traveling to meet the heavy taxation demands of a colonial government. She lived in a land recovering from violent civil wars and still in turmoil – a situation much like that of modern , , or Solmalia. Like half of a mothers who deliver today, she gave birth in , in its far western corner, the part of the world that would prove least receptive to the son she bore. That son became a refugee in , the continent where most refugees can still be found.”
-Philip Yancey from The Jesus I Never Knew
"The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. ... That's one reason why the statistics on Christians generally don't differ from the statistics on non-Christians. We're not living a different life."
-Dallas Willard (RelevantMagazine.com)
Tomorrow I move youth group from Wednesday evening to Sunday evenings. There are numerous reason for this, some being
1. I won't have to rush across town from work just to make it in time.
2. I can have the leisure of the afternoon to set up the room and prepare the program.
3. I can move the start time from 7pm to 5pm, which shouldn't crowd the students time.
4. I can invite parents to be apart of the youth ministry without taking away from the women's bible study.
5. I can end youth group and still have some sunlight left in my day.
6. Just cause I want to...
I'll tell you how it goes in a later post.
-T-
