-is supposedly
objective, factual, based on evidence, is dispassionately established
-think of those who
deny accepted scientific truths: flat earthers, creationist
believers, holocaust deniers, and deniers of climate change.
This is an excerpt
of the notes I took in my Intro to Politics class today. My Intro to
Politics professor lumps Christians in with the people that deny the
Holocaust happened, people that think the earth is flat, and people
that deny global warming... and this is not the first joke he's made
at the expense of Christians.
I find this highly
offensive. For one thing, even Charles Darwin admitted his theory of
evolution may have been wrong (hence the THEORY of evolution,
scientists). While there may be Christians that believe in the Bible
blindly (it's called faith...), the evidence that aligns with the
Bible is insurmountable. My professor brought up how the world is
created, and excuse me for “being naive” and “following
blindly”, but the fact people actually believe that our earth was
created by an explosion (that wasn't engineered by a Creator, i'm not
ruling that out) absolutely astounds me. How can you walk outside and
see things like trees, rocks, water, and mountains and think that it
came to be through a “bang”? The creativity in even just a
snowflake seems obvious to me that there HAS to be a Creator.
This is even
without bringing up humans. I've heard theories about how we came to
be out of a sort of “primordial soup”. Excuse me professor? There
have been studies done, and science has found it is impossible to
create life out of “primordial soup”. You can't create life out
of nothing. It's not possible. Even just look at the eye. When you're
being knit together in your mother's womb, the eye forming is one of
the biggest miracles. The number of cells that need to match up to
their one correct partner in order to create sight is huge. The
number of neuronal synapses in a person's brain is more than the
number of stars in the universe. I don't understand how someone can
believe that this was created by a bang.
In my opinion, and
i'm not a scholar by any case, it takes way more faith to be an
atheist than it does to be a Christian. You have to ignore
significant evidence for a Creator. I don't believe he's right, and i'm going to do my best to show him... not even just through speaking up, but through my actions: being respectful and loving at the same time.
Thank you,
professor.
Challenge accepted.
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