Tag: Life

Have Scientists Created a Cell?
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Have Scientists Created a Cell?

A recent article I saw on Facebook which had originally been published by CNN, claimed that scientists have constructed a cell for the first time. Scanning the comments I came across one person revelling in the news as a means of mocking creationists. He pictured creationists wringing their hands, shutting their ears and refusing to listen to the facts. Did he have good reason to gloat? Is the news correct, and if so, does it conclusively prove, as this person seemed to think and as many people I've known think, that life came about by random natural processes?

Where Do Our Thoughts Come From?
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Where Do Our Thoughts Come From?

Where do our thoughts come from? Experts of all stripes who view the world from a totally naturalistic viewpoint insist that every thought is a production of the brain - a physical organ. Those of us who believe in something beyond the brain know there's more to the human mind than just meat, chemicals and electrical signals. I'll take that statement one step further: the "meat", the chemical interactions and the electrical signals are vital tools for our spirits to operate in a physical world.

The Iceberg of Life

The Iceberg of Life

The phrase, "the tip of the iceberg" is a common metaphor for things of consequence which are only visible or detectable in part. In comparison they are almost entirely beneath the surface, unseen and unappreciated. The most significant fact of course, as the sad story of the Titanic tells us, is that the unseen part is every bit as real and as solid as that which is seen. So it is with life itself.

WHAT TO BET YOUR LIFE ON

WHAT TO BET YOUR LIFE ON

Perhaps a majority of people have submitted their lives and their eternal destinies to the idea that we all evolved from nothing, via some sort of single-celled organism, then a fish, a lemur-like creature, and an ape-like animal which eventually learned to walk on two legs.

BARE-BONES FAITH

BARE-BONES FAITH

If all our dreams and hopes in life come to nothing, would we turn our back on our God, or would we realize that though we have nothing,, we still have the Prize:?