Mr. Dale, you posted:
>>Dr. Robin Collins is
Professor of Philosophy.
at Messiah College and a well known
Intelligent Design advocate
(although he differs from most ID folk by
naming the designer as God). While he
studied physics as an undergraduate, he was
a software engineer before turning to
philosophy and religion. His Ph.D. in
philosophy is legitimate but
he is not
a physicist nor an unbiased reporter. He is
on a mission to prove that God exists.<<
What you are essentially saying is that an
educated professor's scientific objectivity is
obscured and bias simply because he believes
in a Creator. Thus, he should be disregarded.
I find it very interesting how the majority
of scientific world believe GOD does not exist
and viciously attack anyone who uses science
to show the existence of GOD. Ironically, the
really great scientific minds who
revolutionized science as we know it believe
the exact opposite. That science proves a
Creator must exist. Does that mean their
scientific objectivity is obscured and bias?
The average academic like yourself (and Rashid
Mughal) believe science proves there is no
God, yet the highly respected scientific
geniuses in their fields realized there must
be a GOD, who is correct? The genius or the
scholar? The master or the apprentice? The
Einstein’s of the world or the Rashid Mughal’s
of the world? Here are some quotes from the
great scientific minds who should be bashed
and discredited since they believe in GOD.
“Every one
who is seriously involved in the pursuit of
science
becomes
convinced that a Spirit is manifest in the
laws of the universe – a Spirit vastly
superior to that of man, and one in the face
of which we with our modest powers must feel
humble. In this way the pursuit of
science leads to a religious feeling of a
special sort, which is indeed quite different
from the religiosity of someone more naive.”
(Albert Einstein 1936, as cited in Dukas and
Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: The Human Side,
Princeton University Press, 1979, 33).
“The
deeper one penetrates into nature’s secrets,
the greater
becomes one’s respect for God.” (Albert
Einstein, as cited in Brian 1996, 119).
“As a physicist,
that is, a man who had devoted his whole life
to a wholly prosaic science, the exploration
of matter, no one would surely suspect me of
being a fantast. And so, having studied the
atom, I am telling you that there is no matter
as such! All matter arises and persists only
due to a force that causes the atomic
particles to vibrate, holding them together in
the tiniest of solar systems, the atom.
Yet in
the whole of the universe there is no force
that is either intelligent or eternal,
and we
must therefore assume that behind this force
there is a conscious, intelligent Mind or
Spirit.
This is
the very origin of all matter.” (Max
Planck, as cited in Eggenstein
1984, Part I; see “Materialistic Science on
the Wrong Track”).
Writing on the
complementary relations between science and
religion, Max Planck observed: “The one does
not exclude the other;
rather they are complementary and mutually
interacting. Man needs science as a tool of
perception; he needs religion as a guide to
action.” (Max
Planck, as cited in Schaefer 1983,
84).
There will always be the Rashid Mughal’s of
the world who disregard key pieces of evidence
to maintain their bias viewpoints on GOD.
However, science is not supposed to be bias.
All facts have to be taken into account, which
is likely why the truly great scientists of
the world all believed in the Creator. They
simply looked at all the facts concluded the
probability of the universe being a result of
randomness is as improbable as an Unabridged
Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a
printing factory. It is simply illogical.
There must be a Creator.
Mr. Dale and Mr. Mughal, your should
really reflect on the following by your
scientific mentors.
“The
first gulp from the glass of natural sciences
will turn you into an atheist,
but at
the bottom of the glass God is waiting for
you.” (Werner Heisenberg, as cited
in Hildebrand 1988, 10).
“In view of such
harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited
human mind, am able to recognize, there are
yet people who
say there is no God.
But what
really makes me angry is that they quote me
for the support of such views.”
(Albert Einstein, as cited in Clark 1973, 400;
and Jammer 2002, 97).
A truly unbiased educated person will look
at all the scientific data and come to the
realization there must be a Creator who
created everything, just like scientific
revolutionaries did. Probability laws
irrefutably confirms the universe CANNOT be an
act of randomness. In fact, the probability
that all the science found in the 1400 year
old Quran being a random coincidence is
equally impossible. It had to have come from
the ONE being who created everything.
Perhaps the truly great scientists were
searching for absolute truth regardless of
where it leads them, whereas the majority of
the scientific community is searching for
truth so long as GOD is factored out of the
equation. Interestingly enough, the scientists
who believed in GOD tend to be the scientists
who revolutionize scientific thought.
Mike Jackson