Mother Nature Vs God; a War of Words
Posted: Monday, February 28, 2011
by Carol Allen Anfinsen
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Recently, I watched a cute commercial on television. Ripe, colorful fruits and veggies danced across the screen with a verbal backdrop: “ Funny how Mother Nature knows how to make what’s good for you.”
Nonsense! Mother Nature is a figment of man’s imagination; a term used to avoid the use of the word God. Furthermore, nature (God’s nature) isn’t funny at all – it’s amazing!
It is God who created our natural world and everything in it. We are created in his image. He is the one who set everything in motion. He alone knows what is good for us. “Mother Nature” is a nebulous term for people who are unwilling to accept the reality of God. And while I’m at it, isn’t this evolution thing getting a bit out of hand? Without a shred of proof except for supposition and speculation, the “theory” of evolution remains just that: a theory; and yet, it’s accepted as if it were verifiable scientific evidence.
I’m one Christian who can live with that. If God chose to use evolution as a means of creating the world and everything in it, that doesn’t shake my faith in the least. But the time-line is all wrong. Many scientists contend that the world took far less time to create than evolution would allow. The sophistication and uniqueness of each life form far better supports a supreme intelligence who orchestrated the universe with a grand design and divine intention.
But who am I? “I’m just the “1000 pound gorilla in the room” (or is it God?). And I’m sure God is amused at how hard we humans try to ignore him, or is he?
I don’t remember ever hearing modern day scientists or evolutionists talk about Fibonacci’s number sequence, have you? First identified in 1202 in Italy, an Italian named Fibonacci recorded his conclusions in a book. Fibonacci’s number sequence can be used to plot the curves seen in human fingerprints, the curve in the human inner ear (cochlea), the curves in sea shells, and almost everything in the universe.
These recurring patterns in nature reveal astonishing evidence of a Supreme designer and creator of the universe. Yet, who has heard of him or his number sequence? Where is it taught? Why isn’t it part of the science curriculum? Is it because it blows apart the theory of evolving life forms that emerge and thrive as a result of the survival of the fittest? You may view a You Tube presentation at this link: www.youtube.com/watch
Some scientific communities declare that they can create life, yet they cannot literally. They must first take the basic elements that have already been created by God and combine them in order to create life in a test tube. On their own, they are unable to generate life without first using what has already been created by God.
These scientists are masters of duplication, but the act of “creation” eludes them. As it states so beautifully in Ecclesiastes 1:9: “…there is no new thing under the sun;” everything was first created by God. Perhaps God should question these scientists as he did Job in the Bible:
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Who of you marked off its dimensions? Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt?
Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place?” (Job 38 NIV)
The power of God is infinite and eternal. We foolish humans think we can control the earth and everything on it, including the climate. Climate change a.k.a. “global warming” is another man-made term devised by men to wrest power from God. No matter how hard they try to tame the forces and power of God, they are simply twisting in the wind.
God is in control. Politicians, manipulators of truth, money and greed may use climate change for their own selfish purposes, but they cannot control it. God spoke of our day and age:
“Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; …ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2 Tim 3:1-7 KJV)
The following quote from a present-day physicist confirms the truth of the above scriptural passage: “Almighty or not, physicists don’t allow any supreme being blocking the road to new horizons and further progress.”
If you would like to read more about the Fibonacci sequence and the “theory” or comments by present-day physicists on this subject, go to the following links; but only, if you love mathematics! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Origins or http://www.science20.com/hammock_physicist
At least, you can’t say I didn’t give you two points of view!
Unbelievers and those who hold that the Bible is fiction or legend or whatever else they want to label it, will “never come to the knowledge of the truth.” Why? Because:
· the truth requires belief
· the truth is simple
· the truth requires the exercise of faith
If that makes me a “cock-eyed optimist” or a fool in your eyes or the eyes of science, so be it.
I once tried to explain my faith, my prayer life, and my scripture reading habits to one of my sons. His response: “You’re borderline autistic!” I suspect that other people may attach this label to me. Still, I prefer to hold fast to my “anchor:” the Holy Bible, the living word of a living God.
When I read Genesis, I’m not only inspired; I believe it is the word of God. I take its meaning literally.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,” and there was light.” (Gen. 1-2)
By the word of his mouth, and the power of his divinity, God planned, orchestrated, and created everything in the heavens and upon the earth. Will you believe in weak, imperfect men “who think they are learned, when they are unwise? Who are ever learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth?” Or will you believe in God’s word and in the sweet simple reassurance that he places in the hearts of believers?
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