Whether one believes in Jesus or not the position is not one of hard logic and reason, rather, a matter of intuition. Since I first went to church when I was a child I believed Jesus. I tried not to believe in Him and I am not sure why? I have had depression and anxiety problems, mood swings, bitterness, low self esteem and this stuff has held me back from exploiting my talents to their maximum effectiveness. I repented and asked Christ to forgive me. The only thing that ever helped me to come out of the fog of depression is belief in the Divinity of Christ. Science can't help with spiritual problems.
I don't claim to be superior or holier than thou. I really don't know anything. But I am convinced Christ is real and at some point in the future we will all have to answer to him.
I think intuition is more important to survival and welfare than reason.
That's great. I too have suffered for many, many years from depression, anxiety, alcoholism and, at times, bad feelings towards others and Christ has helped me to keep going.
There is a great misunderstanding in the world that science and faith are complete opposites, but
a) Modern science is based on the idea that the Almighty created an orderly universe and so it can be interpreted in a rational way.
b) Following on, it was mainly believers in God who became the most influential scientists in centuries gone by.
c) Because modern science is based on Christian beliefs about the universe, 'atheists', many of whom seem more interested in attacking Christianity than teaching science, are therefore attacking the underpinning of their own belief system.
d) Those who reject Christ have to believe that we came from the slime - as former Oxford professor, Peter Atkins, said, ‘We are just a bit of slime on the planet’. Were that true though, our thoughts would be the result of the mere movement of atoms in the brain obeying the fixed laws of chemistry.
e) As a consequence, some evolutionists insist that there is no free will, which begs the question: how are they so sure that they are right in their thinking if they are unable to think in the real sense?
f) Why do materialists believe that they have the answers to metaphysical questions when their sphere of knowledge is in the physical realm only? In fact, that's all they think there is, hence they tend to mock people who believe in spiritual things. No wonder they come across as stupid, arrogant and intolerant - their anger used as a smokescreen to cover up their ignorance about matters they do no understand.
g) Science and religion are not polar opposites, otherwise there would be no religious scientists, but there are many. The battle is one of worldviews; it is worldview vs worldview and science vs science.
h) As it is science vs science, it is becoming ever more clear as time goes on, that Darwin was wrong. He thought that the fossil record would reveal a finely graduated chain of evolving organisms, yet what we find is a record of complete, fully functional plants and animals, with just a handful of possible candidates for 'missing links' which can be challenged.
Darwin also knew that if any organism was found which was too complex to have arisen by successive, slight modifications, his theory would "absolutely break down". Modern microscopes have helped to discover those very complex organisms which disprove his theory.
i) In population genetics, we can see that populations decline in fitness due to the build up of deleterious mutations with each new generation, leading ultimately to extinction. This is the opposite of what needs to happen for evolution theory to work. therefore life must have been created perfect in the beginning.
Darwin and neo-Darwinists can be shown to be totally wrong about the origin of life. Scripture holds true just as strongly as ever: "In the beginning God created...".
Glory to the Almighty Creator.
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