I attend a Referral Network group every Tuesday morning and this morning a local Chiropractor gave a short presentation on her business. This wonderful lady (who is a great Chiropractor by the way!!) made a few comments which amused me – in a good way. When talking about the human body she kept referring to “it’s design”. In speaking about the kidneys, she said they are “designed” to rid the body of toxins. She also referred to the marvel of how the body is “designed” to heal itself and warn us when something is wrong.
I always find it interesting how even in the most secular of business settings people can, perhaps unknowingly, marvel at the greatness of our Creator. For referring to the body as something “designed” rather than “evolved” implies a Creator – if it is designed, who designed it?
I had a huge smile on my face realizing that even without knowing it we praise our great God and Designer, Jesus Christ!! It was a wonderful way to start off the day.
Darrell
In my conversations with atheists and agnostics some have made the statement “the only way we can know if something is true or not is through empirical testing”. Many then follow by saying this “disproves” the knowledge of the existence of God… saying “since we can’t empirically test the existence of God we cannot know for sure He exists”. While this line of reasoning may seem logical in a society dominated by the philosophy of Naturalistic Materialism it has one severe problem… it is self-defeating. For you cannot empirically test the statement “the only way we can know for something is true or not is through empirical testing”. Therefore, turning the statement against itself we cannot know if it is true!
While empirical testing is a wonderful tool, to say it is the only way to know truth is vastly overreaching. Of course we can know truth without empirical testing. We do it everyday using the process of induction – drawing general conclusions through specific observation. For example, if someone were to tell you they have a friend by the name of Henry who is a 4 legged reptile, you would logically determine Henry is not a man. Every man you have observed in your life is a mammal (most with 2 legs… none with 4!), therefore, Henry cannot be a man.
Can induction be used to determine the existence of God? Absolutely! We investigate God the same way we investigate other things we cannot see around us (i.e. gravity) – by observing their effects. We will touch on this in future posts.
Darrell
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