‘Thoughts'
-- A Special Edition of Thoughts --
Written By: Jim Hoff
(Preacher, Grants Pass, Oregon)
DENIAL OF CHRISTIAN THINKING IS UNSCIENTIFIC
Some think Christians are crazy, unscientific and accept the Bible in blind faith. But faith begins at birth, accepting others word for food, medicine and poison. I've never tried arsenic, but I believe it's a poison, don't you?When you look at a telescope that has a refracted lens for a distinct image, rational people know parts didn't fall off the optician's bench and assemble themselves. But your own eye has self-focusing, a self-adjusting shutter that expands or contracts automatically to let in the right amount of light, is hinged to perceive objects in different directions, has a special cleaning fluid that drains through a hole in the nose and formed before there was a need, to do a job after birth, and you think it just happened? Now that's blind faith.People accept the city water pumping system as being planned, but what about the human heart, which pumps about 6,000 pounds of blood through 10,000 arteries and veins every 24 hours and operates for 60 to 90 years in most cases without shutdown or repair. Is that blind chance?Is the telephone system that sends and receives messages planned, but the human nervous system blind chance?Is the computer an example of extraordinary planning, but the brain that conceived it, designed, programmed and put it together just a product of blind chance?Christian thinking is more scientific and rational, don't you think?
Written by Jim HoffGrants Pass, OregonSaturday March 26, 2005