Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: Faith
The existence of God, despite the complaints of people like Sir David Attenborough who gave suffering as the reason for his own atheism, doesn't go away by invoking this problem. After all, God may be pernicious and unloving. He may be uncaring. He may be somewhere else and not able to help us yet. He may be using suffering for his own purposes.
Views of the "rapture of the Church" vary enormously, from people not believing that it's a Biblical event at all and who say it will never happen, to the insistance that all true believers will be whisked from the earth any day now, in order to save us all from suffering and from what's to come upon the earth during the "Tribulation".
What will people be like in heaven? Will they be as they are now, except with wings? Not everyone gets along with everyone else here, so if there's not some sort of change in the transition from here to there heaven will be like our world is now: fractured, tense, decidedly unfriendly in places, and with a drastic imbalance of fortunes.
Dr. Guliuzza goes on to describe some of what he calls the "undeniable engineering" of parts of the cell. He writes that it's not only complexity that we should be paying attention to, but the fact that researchers are finding components of the cell performing functions that correspond precisely to human-engineered components doing similar things.
It's not the mixing of skin colors which is the problem: not at all. Skin is skin: it's all human. The problem is the mixing of incompatible philosophies, and the destruction of roots and connections.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 