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 Pinning Down God By Clarissa Worley Sproul
If you care at all about who tells who what’s what in the world of science, or you have an evening that needs good stimulating thought filling it, I recommend you get the DVD. You will think once it’s over, and you will possibly be a little incensed. Is it really that unfair and lopsided? Have the scientific spheres of American thought really mutated into a kind of atheistic prom where only good doubting thinkers are invited? The most shocking moment for me, having been relatively ignorant of what has gone down in the scientific world, was when I discovered that Richard Dawkins, a leading voice in the world of science, had written a book about how God doesn’t exist. The book is entitled, The God Delusion and roars to life with few apologies for its harsh critique of this mean Old Testament monster. I almost fell off my chair. In science, you are not allowed to speak unless you’ve got good hard evidence from years of research. Scientists pride themselves on being “legit” by doing unbiased work, and they make fun of people—especially religious people—who think they have something to say regarding a discipline they know little or nothing about. So then how is a scientist with zero training in Theology feeling equipped to write about about God, doing the very thing that scientist are quick to make light of in others? How ironic. How very human. When I saw Dawkins pontificating his views of God I realized how rampant this wild kind of—I’ll show you’re wrong by doing what you do—is among us all. Really, any time we come down hard on someone for their coming down on us, we’re doing the same silly thing. It’s laughable, though usually nauseating at the time. We point out the negative in others, often with a whiff of irritation, and there we are, cleaning up the mess with our own mud. Jesus hit this habit hard. He said we should get the log out of our own eye before trying to get the splinter out of someone else’s eye. This analogy makes a lot of sense. Technically, a small splinter of wood held at a distance, when held super close to our own pupil looks huge and blocks out most everything. It may be a twig from across the room, but jam it up in your face and it might as well be a redwood. And why is it that if I have wood in my eye it predisposes me to rummaging after the wood in yours? My husband and I have developed our own spin on this. We have found that usually the splinter we go for in another’s eyeball matters to us because it’s like the log we carry in our own. Spot it, you got it, is our mantra, because we’ve found that what bugs us most is what we ourselves have going on. I think this rings true for dear Mr. Dawkins. Here is a man who loathes that those without a truly scientific edge are laying claims to how the world began (intelligent design), and all on the basis of the Bible they’ve been reading for years—their Theology, other words. But wait, his launching into Theology—even writing a book—without any formal education or years of research into Spiritual things is just exactly that. Spot it, Mr. Dawkins—and you and me and all of us—have got it! Visit Life Notes ______________________________ Clarissa Worley Sproul writes from the Pacific Northwest. All rights reserved © 2010 AnswersForMe.org. Click here for content usage information. Add your comment. |
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