“To materialists, words are nothing more than an evolved form of feces which hairless apes fling at that which displeases them.”
William J Murray
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OT: Mary Shelley said she got the idea for Frankenstein from experiments by Charles Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus, giving life to a piece of spaghetti. Today Paul Nelson on the Medved Show will talk attempts to create artificial life, Craig Venter and more, Listen live to the second hour of the Medved Show, 1 pm Pacific time or 4 pm Eastern, or hear it online by going here.
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That one might be considered a little bit, shall we say, ‘severe’, for your book of apothegms, WJM? Even to the ears of our dirt-worshipper friends.
BUT THEY DESERVE IT!!!
As to William J Murray poetic observation:
Anyone who has debated atheists on the internet about design, this comment from WJM is a no-brainer. And although theists, and certainly I, are not perfect in regards to keeping things above board, focused on the evidence/issue at hand, and not attacking the man, atheists are notorious for resorting to ad-hominem argumentation (attacking the man instead of the issue) instead of ever addressing the evidence honestly in an unbiased manner:
Moreover, the following anti-ID philosopher in academia even goes so far as to publish a paper saying that the bullying tactics (ad hominems) of neo-Darwinists are justified since many ID proponents are Christian:
And there has even been a recent study showing that the tweets of atheists (i.e. words in general) tend to be more negative than theists’ tweets:
But why would Theists think that their words were precious, whereas Atheists don’t? One obvious place Theists get this notion for the importance of ones’ words is in their belief that God spoke the universe into being:
Another place I personally find inspiration for thinking my words are precious are because Jesus ‘commanded’, with his words, the wind to be still, and Lazarus to rise from the dead, and such miracles as that. Moreover Jesus taught that we would have to give account for every word that we utter when we stand before God.
But do we have any actual scientific evidence that connects speech/sound to reality in a fundamental way, as theists should rightly expect if reality were truly spoken into existence by God? and if Jesus really did command the sea to be still, and sick to be healed, as Christians contend? Well, in what should be a really big surprise for atheists, we do have evidence for this base level connection between sound and reality. The following verse, articles, and video, are very suggestive as to providing almost tangible proof for God ‘speaking’ reality into existence:
The following video shows there is ‘very surprising’ direct connection between geometric structure and sound:
But is there a connection between positive words being spoken by people and the health as would be expected if it were truly possible that Jesus really did command Lazarus to rise from the dead, and such ‘spoken’ healing miracles as that? Once again, in what should be a big surprise for atheists, the answer is Yes! We do have evidence for such a connection:
Thus despite the materialistic belief that spoken words really do not matter, the Theist is justified in his belief that our words really do matter:
Verse, Music and Poem:
OT: Stephen Meyer on Point of View with Kerby Anderson – radio interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04lcDv2d-PU
To a materialist, words have meaning, but nothing else does.
This is just one more in a long line of incoherencies inherent in the materialist position. It’s all jut matter in motion. no meaning. Even words are just matter in motion and have no meaning. Even the words used to deny meaning have no meaning.