Balaam disobeys God. God sends an angel to kill Balaam. Balaam’s donkey sees the angel and tries to protect Balaam. Balaam whips donkey. God gives the donkey the ability to speak, and the donkey explains what he was trying to do. Balaam nays.
I find this story one of the funniest in the Bible. The donkey talks, the man nays. I wonder how many of us are so stuck on the path we’ve prepared for ourselves that we act like an ass.
I love really smart people. They make great asses of themselves.
I subscribe to the magazine The Skeptic. The Skeptic is avowedly atheistic. I like reading their arguments as it helps me do a better job presenting solid arguments for Mr. E in Evolution vs. Creation: On a Level Playing Field.
This past month’s magazine has a picture of a set of four test tubes with the caption “The Origin of Life: How did it happen? How close are we to creating it in the lab?” What’s sad is that they probably missed the obvious fact that we can’t even create it in the lab with all of our intelligence and yet they believe that EVERYTHING came about through random chance. Even religious folks who offer to meet them half way with “intelligent design” are dismissed out of hand.
One of the most popular arguments rehashed by atheists is Richard Dawkin’s titled “Climbing Mount Improbable.” The argument essentially states that evolution is bound to happen because evolution keeps all positive mutations, while losing negative ones until even the highest mount is conquered through gradual systematic steps. Using such logic will make these geniuses very popular in Vegas. Craps would be the most popular game in the world if you could keep only those roles that gave you what you wanted.
If that argument confuses you (and I totally understand how such gobbly gook is confusing) they often put it more simply, “we know evolution happened because we are here, aren’t we?”
When it comes to evolutionary science the explanations trying to circumvent the obvious are becoming more and more absurd. Nothing complex comes about without a design. The more complex it is, the more design or planning went into creating it. We know that life is incredibly complex and yet we are willing to use our conclusion as evidence in our argument.
I.e. The Mavericks are the best basketball team in America because I said they were. When believers/ “religious wackos” use such illogic it is rightly questioned, but when skeptics use it they don’t see the irony.
Another way geniuses jump out of airplanes with their napsacks is that they question everything. Skeptics love to poke holes in any kind of belief. The question that springs to mind is “who questions the skeptics?” Being anti-everything is a great strategy. Like the employee that whines about every idea, suggestion or proposal but has none of their own. There is a reason such people are called jackasses.
A few years an evangelistic atheist was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report. The scientist told Mr. Colbert that he “had to believe in evolution.” Colbert put him in his place with relish “no I don’t have to BELIEVE.”
In their papers, books and conferences they question why religious people are so stubborn and refuse to recognize the obvious truth (their truth). They look down upon religious people with what borders on disdain and contempt. I wonder when they’ll realize that they’ve been looking into a mirror and stop naying.
I have no problem considering Evolutionary arguments and thought. I appreciate a good discussion. But such a dialog will never take place until both sides realize that their beliefs are just that. To demand that others swallow their gospel without question puts them in the same category of the cult leaders that they love to malign.
Maybe this time God will open a monkey’s mouth.
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