Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Oh Dawkins


So I was doing some research for school and ran across this picture. Of course I had to read the article (You can link to it by clicking on the blog title). The bulk of it consisted of a debate between Richard Dawkins (the mouth of atheism) and Francis Collins (head of the Human Genome Project and a believer)

I don’t have much to say about it other than it never ceases to amaze me how blind and hard we are apart from God. The following is an excerpt from the middle of the debate that closely resembles Dawkins interview in Ben Stein’s movie Expelled.


TIME: Could the answer be God?

DAWKINS: There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

COLLINS: That's God.

DAWKINS: Yes. But it could be any of a billion Gods. It could be God of the Martians or of the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri.


Wow. Another example of how the knowledge of God cannot be had apart from his gracious revelation to the believer.
We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory…The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2: 7-8, 14-16)

The article ended with Dawkins last sentence:

DAWKINS: If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Oh if he only knew…

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have a question totally off the subject if you don't mind. What is the difference between simple faith and the faith it would take to really step out on a limb for God? Is there a difference? It seemed so simple when I trusted Christ as my Savior. But why is it so hard to let go of my idenity and will for my life? How do you know for sure God is leading you in a certain direction and where does the faith come frome to make such a move?