It’s actually consistent given that Darwinian creation myths are an attack on all language and all symbols and signs of design.

I can’t find people any more ignorant who have a fetish for science/knowledge. As Karl Kraus said of another form of pseudo-science, they are the disease that they purport to cure.

Apparently so, seeing as you’ve just been censored over there…!

Ironically it seems to me that admitting that knowledge can have an impact on matter is the beginning of science, not the end of it. Yet Darwinians always seem to argue that “science” will come to an end if that idea is not censored.

http://www.americanvision.org/.....ut-christ/

I do not know if free will exists, whatever freedom and will may mean. But that is my feeling as well, although we live in a culture where people want mercy without law, grace without judgment and repentance without knowledge of sin it may be that it is all necessary due to the nature of God. In the age of the Comforter we have grown comfortable but how can mercy exist without “intolerant” justice which defines it in the first place?

That depends on what you mean by free will. What most people seem to mean is a metaphoric collection of billiard balls which are set in motion by a ghost in the machine, a supposedly free “mind” or will. Thus we trace back a chain of cause and effect and assign “blame”/cause based on this thing called will. But if a more appropriate metaphor for reality from our limited perspective is a work of art having to do with good and evil then who is to blame for one billiard ball/atom hitting another need not be our main focus, instead the whole picture is the main issue. In fact, it all may simply be out of necessity if God is good. Given that perspective we might also recognize that reality may not revolve around man and his supposed will. But it seems to me that for the most part we would have to admit that we do not know, although we would at least know that a reductionist view supposedly leading back in time to “gaps” of free will view is myopic if the whole picture is already willed as a work of art at present as we know it and for all time as well.

It seems odd to me that some Christians treat the existence of evil as a problem with respect to predestination when Jesus himself claimed that His Crucifixion was predestined. From the Christian perspective that is the most evil act to have ever happened, yet it was predestined if we believe what He often said. As I recall at one point Jesus basically said, “This is predestined but woe to the generation that is destined to do this evil anyway.” In other words He knew predestined evil doesn’t make sense from our perspective but implied that a work of art and a story having to do with redemption and grace may not revolve around our perceptions of it. It seems to me that He was interested in our perspective and went to the trouble of seeing things from our perspective but ultimately rejected our free “will” based perspective (Not my will but thy will be done, etc.).

the must-watch video referred to in the article is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzkB5DuveDE

You said,

Man is only interested in himself if left to his own devices. Because that’s how he was made, after all.

By this you mean, man, since Adam, has been made this way (self-absorbed)! Before the fall, of course, Adam was in perfect union with and dependent upon God!

Off the subject, I also wanted to clarify my original comment, here, by stating that any atheist/agnostic who would seek the Lord, in truth and Spirit (in honesty), would find me very open to sharing my life and experiences. Like the Lord, I wish for no man to perish (however “perishing” comes about)!