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In the movie Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan, Jody Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway an astronomer obsessed with finding extra-terrestrial life. Ellie doesn’t believe in God but she does believe in aliens. Her persistent search for aliens ultimately pays off when she finally picks up radio signals from outer space. Through a series of events…..
The Intelligent Design (ID) movement is often portrayed as a religious Trojan Horse, a faux scientific steed hiding a band of religious fanatics trying to get a divine foot in the laboratory door.
Evolutionists … have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept…..
Our culture tells us that stuff will make us happy, winning the lottery will make our lives care-free, and climbing to the top of the corporate ladder will give us a better view of life. The problem is that when we feed our spirit with material delicacies it gags, when we win the lottery we get paranoid trying to…..
Our presence in this massive universe is quite stunning. We live on a planet populated by plants, animals, and humans, while the rest of the universe is just orbiting rocks; we are an oasis of life in a massive desert of galactic death. Life appears to be an unwanted intruder in a universe that…..
Atheists are haunted by the clanging chains of the spiritual ghost wandering their fine-tuned physical factories. They cannot escape the fact that humans are composite physical and spiritual beings. We are in the awkward position of having one foot in the spiritual world and one foot in the physical world. We are puzzled by the fact that we can…..
We all experience unhappiness to one degree or another. Our lives are filled with feeble attempts at rectifying our situation. If we believe that the world is devoid of spirit then our only solace is in the physical things of this world. However, acquiring material stuff to make us happy is nothing more than failed electro-shop therapy. If you are an atheist, you have no spiritual place to turn for relief and are forced to resort to the only things…..
In the past, artists lived comfortably in a world which they knew was created and sustained by a benevolent, creative, and almighty God. They saw evidence of His divine imagination everywhere and couldn’t help but try and capture it in paint, song, and in the written word. Sadly the “acidity of modernism” burned off the spiritual realm and left nothing to replace it but charred neuro-chemicals. Maybe the artistic angst we see so frequently played out on our cultural stage…..
