What does the mindless idol say?

What does the mindless idol say? Nothing.

His servants must make up his lies for him, because he has no breath of life.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/2005-12-29/news/metro2.html

"It is our task to inform the world [about intelligent design]," he implored. "Or the child growing up will grow up with unintelligent design.... Unintelligent design is our ignorance, our stupidity."

This is a true saying. If we, as men as human beings, are not the product of some intelligence, then there truly is no such thing as intelligence. If we are not made in the image of a True and Real Consciousness, then there is no such thing as a true reality, and consciousness, self, intelligence are merely illusions. If we are the product of blind chance and necessity of natural accidents with no Cause, no Meaning... then our intelligence, our consiousness, our sense of self and even of individual reality, are merely illusions, merely reflex survival mechanisms which have developed from nothing, for nothing.

But this is not true flatly on it's face. For who indeed is the man trying to convince of these "theories"? Who is he speaking to if we are "no mind from no mind"? And who is the one speaking?

If conciousness is an illusion, if our individual selves are mere survival apparatus - who are they an illusion to?

We are not only matter and energy. Neither is life the product of only matter and energy.

We are clothed in matter and energy, but we are spirit of Spirit, made in the image of the One Who Is, the One Who says of Himself "I Am that I Am". There is no other basis for saying or believing anything but upon the necessary existence of the Self Existent One in Whom we live and move and have our being.

"Our speaker has fuzzied the main issue," complained Nathan Aviezar, who teaches physics at Bar Ilan University in Israel. "The whole enterprise of science is to explain life without invoking supernatural explanations. Intelligent design is not science, it's religion, and it shouldn't be taught in science class."

Wrong. The whole enterprise of science is to acquire true knowledge through the faculty of reason and observation based on the premise that such knowledge can be found, not based upon the premise that "such knowledge cannot point to a cause beyond our method".

If the "enterprise of science is to explain life without "supernatural explanations", how did you decide beforehand that there was no supernatural explanation to be found? By what method did you decide that this could not be the actual truth of the matter at hand? If science cannot affirm the supernatural, then by that same definition it cannot deny it through the scientific method. It simply has nothing to say on this subject.

The fact that modern biology has revealed to us hallmarks of a designer in the cell means nothing more than that. There is a designer. But why does this make so many supposed seekers of truth so afraid? It is because they have committed themselves, seemingly inexorably, to a premise of materialism, of naturalism, and they know very well what the implications are of life being designed by a mind.

Never mind that science does not know the implications of life being designed. Science could simply discover that it is so, and it would not blink. "Life is designed, who designed it? I don't know, with what evidence should we seek the designer's identity?" This is what science says. Science does not know if it is a "god" or an "alien" or a robot, or any other thing - only that it was designed. Science is unperturbed. After all, the scientific method itself is a construct of man, why should "it" then have an objection with man himself being equally 'a construct'?

Which leads me to another thought. The Scientific Method is not self-existent. It is not autonomous. Neither is man's reason an autonomous distiller of pure truth. Man's reason, and the scientific method, both stand upon and begin from certain premises which were not arrived at by using reason or the method. The method and reason stood upon these premises before they could even begin to operate. But the naturalist treats the method as though it were the self existent, right along with matter and energy.

This is their idol and their god, upon which and to whom they give all glory and all credit, for life, for mirth, for mind and for morals, for happiness and for beauty, for all things at all times they dedicate all of this, and all of us, to mindless, self-existent matter.

I refuse to bow to this "god" who is blind and deaf and dumb and dead. I shall serve YHVH, as He Lives and I in Him.