Taking it on faith
Pragmatists deride persons from the faith community for living by faith.
In reality we all live by faith. Every time we fly on a plane, drive in the rain, go on a date or get married, buy or sell on credit we are acting by faith.
We go to a doctor we don’t know, he or she writes us a prescription we can’t read, we take it to a pharmacist we don’t see, we are given a medicine we don’t understand, and we take it by faith.
We go to a bank where there is a sign, “Drive Through Window.” There is a large smokey glass with shadowy figures behind it and a pneumatic tube sticking up in which you put your pay check and it is whisked away to those unknown people. You just gave them your pay check by faith.
The person who asserts there is no God does so by faith. A law of logic notes you can’t prove a negative. Professor Steven Law of London University in “Psychology Today” questioned that statement on my web page (nelsonprice.com) saying you can prove a negative.
Albert Einstein appears to disagree with Law, after listening to some of his students at Humboldt University in Berlin speaking of there being no God. Through a process of elimination questions Einstein asked if collectively they knew five percent of everything there is to know about everything. They conceded they didn’t. He focused their attention on the fact that in that unknown ninety-five percent there might be a God.
You don’t know what you don’t know, you know.
It cannot be proven there is a God. However, there are numerous evidences there is.
Renowned scientist Isaac Newton wrote, “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
Cosmologist Ed Harrison said, “The fine-tuning of the universe proves prima facie evidence of deistic design.”
Microbiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe admits Darwinists are acting on blind faith when it comes to spontaneous generation of life and observed, “The emergence of life from a primordial soup on the Earth is merely an article of faith that scientists are finding hard to shed.”
In keeping with Einstein’s logic, neither can it be proven there is no God.
Physicist and information scientist Hubert Yockey is honest in admitting, “The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from nonliving matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology.” He concludes Darwinists are as religious as the “religious” and live by faith.
So the common denominator is faith. Both schools of thought are based on faith.
Jesus noted the practically of faith by saying if a person has faith the size of a mustard seed, meaning just a little faith, he can move mountains. In the biblical era an unresolved issue or looming problem was spoken of as a mountain. Persons adapt at solving problems and resolving issues were called mountain movers. In His assertion Jesus was teaching that by faith there is a resolution to issues.
Thomas Edison, who was a mountain mover, said every great discovery and invention he ever made began with faith.
It is simply a matter of where do you want to invest your faith? With all the mountains there are to face in time and regarding eternity it is practical to side with the mountain movers.