thoughts

Darwinism cannot explain man nor the complexity of life – it cannot explain emotion, love, wonder and awe. It further cannot explain the most extreme emotions and the most base desires. The great motivators of the human expierence transcend history, culture, and place – love, desire, pain, faith, and happiness. It cannot explain the grandness of nature, the flowers, the fields the mountains above. Beauty and athestics are varied, not standard. Man’s perspective on such things is far too complex to warrant an accident. The transcendence of the human expierence and a core ethical code throughout history become empirical evidence of an intelligent motivator – a divine being who guides the universe not just in a general sense, but in a particular. His evercaring, loving hand directs and guides even the most miniscule and insignificant events. He cares and acts, always doing. This great playwright Darwinianism cannot explain – this theory simply makes mention of the actors assuming their improvising, instead of acting.

I have been reading Russel's History of Western Philosophy and have had some interesting ideas come upon me. Firstly concerning his work: it is very well written, it is concise and gives a good articulation of historical periods and the philosophers that dominated them. Yet, it is biased, there is always an undertow of atheistic skepticism. In his discourse on the patristic fathers and St. Augustine he is quick to point out any flaw he can. His view of Christianity and of Biblical text is one of pure objectivism. How can one view a history and the text of that history, one that is entirely based on an external, supernatural, non-human deity from a scientific perspective? He lacks the inspiration of the spirit, and the ability it gives in historical interpretation.
The question of scientism has come upon me. How is it that those who worship science and not God are so quick and eager to point out the tiniest inconsistency in theism, yet rarely address the glaring problems and unanswered questions of their worldview. Jesus was correct int saying that man looks at the speck in his brothers eye, but not the plank in his own. A question that I have been asking: If theism is false and the world we see with our senses is the only truth (a highly arrogant statement - full of human pride) then how can one interpret space? We understand little of the structure of the world that surrounds us. We see as far as our eyes and the instruments we have created allow us. Astronomy has shown that we see little of our universe. We know little beyond our own solar system, yet we are told that our system is only a speck in our galaxy, and our galaxy is only a speck in the greater universe. How small we are, and how proud we must be to claim we understand the material world around us. Can the universe end and if it can what is beyond it? Is space infinite, how can it not be, how can time and space cease, do we live in a material enternity? Humans dont often enjoy thinking in these terms yet they are right before our sight, we cannot avoid them. Science has little in an anwser to these questions, yet God does. The idea of God, and in particular the God of the Christian faith, more than gives an anwser to these questions. St. Augustine address's these problems in the later books of his Confessions. He see's God as outside of time and space, when the world was created, so was time. The extents of time and space, are anwsered by the fact that God is the beginning and the end - he is, he created and he will end that material creation. In this, the question of the infinite becomes less important, what is infinite if there is no time? Yet, if we have no independent creator, who is without and in time, then the question of space and time becomes a glaring plank.

First Post

I suppose I am new to this but I hope this blog can create interesting discussion and thought. I will be posting my musings on almost anything - the front page of the National Post to my thoughts on St. Augustine. Although, I'm always interested to hear what others have to say - my beard is still black, I encourage those with grey beards of wisdom to post, enlightening me and others.