Apologetics
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Part 2
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Part 2 Biblical theists like C S Lewis are not alone in recognising that if there is no God “all moral judgements (are) … statements about the speaker’s feelings” and nothing more (Part 1). In his influential 1979 essay Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law [Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law (duke.edu)] Yale Law School professor Arthur Allen Leff bluntly states: The so-called death of God turns out not to have been just His funeral; it also seems…
Good and Evil Who Decides Pt 1
Good and Evil – Who Decides? Pt. 1 In her 1969 counterculture anthem Woodstock, songwriter Joni Mitchell intones: “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden.” Of course, there is no getting ourselves back to the Garden. We live in a decaying universe which “groans and suffers” (Rom 8:22) because our first parents succumbed to temptation and disobeyed the LORD God when they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and…
Language of God or Happy Accident (Part 2)
Language of God or Happy Accident? (Part 2) In his Return of the God Hypothesis, Cambridge educated philosopher of science Stephen C Meyer argues that ‘certain features of living systems… are best explained by the activity of an actual designing intelligence” (See Part 1). In an earlier publication (Signature in the Cell) Meyer points out that “DNA stores the assembly instructions for building the many crucial proteins and protein machines that service and maintain even the most primitive one-celled…
Language Of God or Happy Accident?
Language of God or Happy Accident? Having described DNA as “the most extraordinary molecule on earth” physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies assures us that “nobody wrote the (DNA) message; nobody invented the code. They came into existence spontaneously. Their designer was Mother Nature herself, working within the scope of her immutable laws and capitalizing on the vagaries of chance” (The Fifth Miracle). And what proof does Davies have that the genetic code is the product of…