Fw: Mithras
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:32:46 -0500 (00887520766, 19980214232104.AAA29513@briandea)
RON
Notice how I have carefully edited Ricardo's critique below:
RON (mimicking Ricardo)
That most of humanity in the twentieth century thought that science
held all the answers to ultimate questions is understandable. I could
have reached the same conclusion. But they were wrong. No matter. Many
people today believe that science can explain the ultimate reason for
everything. Why, I don't know. Revelation, both Christian and
non-Christian, teaches us that God designed, created, and sustains the
universe. Astronomy only reveals what finite beings can observe with
their limited physical senses; an enormous universe. Quantum mechanics
shows us that many facts need causes. General relativity predicts a
singularity (the Big Bang) beyond which science, with its limited scope,
cannot go. An ultimate cause cannot be disproven. The more we know about
the universe, the more we discover we don't know. Blind faith is needed
to believe and conclude absolutely that this is an accidental world.
Some people wish to exclude God from their paradigm of reality for
various reasons, perhaps they comfort themselves with the belief that
nothing is required of them. And they do. But ultimately they cannot
explain the existence of the universe. And they most certainly have not
disproven the existence of God. They have only limited their search to
the extremely finite area observable by their physical senses.
> >> mailto: "Ricardo Aler Mur" <aler@inf.uc3m.es>
> >> http://grial.uc3m.es/~aler