Sunday, 4 January 2015

THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS!


THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS

DURING MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS, I WAS ABOUT 14 THEN, I CAME TO HEAR ABOUT THIS CHAP CHARLES DARWIN WHO CLAIMED THAT WE WERE DESCENDANTS OF APES?

OUR RELIGION TEACHER, A FATHER SOLER, WHO HAPPENED TO BE A JESUIT, TOLD US THAT THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED A MISSING LINK WHICH PROOVED THAT WE WERE NOT DESCENDANTS OF APES; IN THE MEANWHILE JUST SHRUG THIS FELLOW OFF UNTIL IT BECOMES A PROVEN FACT.

DARWIN, ACCORDING TO MY BELIEFS, AT THAT TIME WAS SOMEBODY WHO WAS ANTIGOD.

TODAY HOWEVER, I COULD SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOF TOOPS THAT HE WAS NOT ANTIGOD BUT AN INSTRUMENT OF GOD SENT TO TELL US THAT NATURAL SELECTION WAS A FACT AND WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT AS TRUE.

DOES NATURAL SELECTION SAY THERE IS NO GOD? NO, ONLY THAT THE BIBLE STORY OF GENESIS HAS NOW BECOME  A HISTORY BOOK  THAT IS BEST DISCARDED AS HAVING SERVED ITS PURPOSE IN A BYGONE ERA. PEOPLE WERE ASKING QUESTIONS THEN AND DEMANDING THE RIGHT ANSWERS.

NOW COMES THE TIME FACTOR.  NATURAL SELECTION IS AN AGONIZINGLY SLOW PROCESS FOR US. IT TOOK SEVERAL THOUSAND OF YEARS TO COME ABOUT.  COULD THIS PROCESS HAVE SOMEHOW BEEN HASTENED?

·         BIRDS FEEDING OFF MOTHS ON TREE TRUNKS THAT WERE EASILY DISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE BARK AND LEAVING THOSE WHO HAD ADAPTED TO THE COLOURINGS OF THE BARK ALONE, TO INCRESE AND MULTIPLY?

·         PIGEON BREEDERS HAVE MANAGED TO BREED PIGEONS OF DIFFERENT KINDS JUST BY OBSERVING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THEIR PIGEONS AND CROSS BREEDING THEM TO DEVELOP FANTAILS, POUTERS, AND TUMBLERS AND SO ON.

·         FISH BREEDERS HAVE BY PERSONAL SELECTION MANAGED TO BREED GOLD FISH WHICH I BELIEVE DID NOT EXIST IN THEIR WILD STAGES.  BIRDS CAN EASILY PICK THEM OUT OF THE WATER BECAUSE THEY ARE HIGHLY VISIBLE.

·         SOME FLOWERS HAVE BEEN POLINATED BY MAN TO PRODUCE FLOWERS OF A DIFFERENT COLOURING AND SO ON

·         DOG BREEDERS ARE LIKWISE ABLE TO CHOOSE DOGS WTH THE CHARACTERESTICS THEY WANT IN THE BREEDS THEY HAVE DECIDED TO ADOPT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE.

THE POSSIBIITY EXISTS.

TAKE IT AS A FACT (MIRACLES APART) GOD CANNOT OPERATE BY FIAT. THE ABOVE IS HOW HE PURPOTEDLY COOKED THINGS UP IN HIS LAB, OUR EARTH, EVENTUALLY PRODUCING MAN TO DO HIS WORK. IT DID TAKE HIM AGES IN OUR TIME TO DO SO BUT A COUPLE OF WINKS IN HIS TIME.

IF AN INTELLIGENCE LIKE MAN CAN TAKE PART IN THE POWER OF NATURAL SELECTION ONLY HERE WE MIGHT CALL IT INTELLIGENT SELECTION, THEN WHY NOT  EL-SHADDAI  HASTENING THE PROCESS OF INTELLIGENT SELECTION.

COULD EL- SHADDAI HAVE HAD A HAND IN HURRYING THE PROCESS OF INTELLIGENT BREEDING? AFTER ALL TIME HAS NO MEANING IN HIS LIFE BEGGINING WITH THE BIG BANGS, AS COMPARED TO OURS; AND SELECTIVE BREEDING IS A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION WHERIN HE EXCELLS, IF NEEED BE.  CREATING LIFE IS WHAT POSES HURDLES FOR HIM. HENCE IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROTECT PLANTS ANIMALS ETC THAT ARE FACING EXTINCTION.  WE MUST TEACH CHILDREN THAT ONCE A SPECIES OF LIFE IS SNUFFED OUT THEN THAT IS LIKE SAYING GOODBYE TO IT PERMANENTLY.

 THINK ABOUT IT. WHY DID HE HAVE TO GO INTO THIS PAINFULLY SLOW METHOD OF SELECTIVE BREEDING IF HE COULD HAVE DONE IT BY FIAT? (PLEASE LEAVE MIRACLES OUT OF IT BECAUSE . THAT IS ANOTHER SUBJECT ALTOGETHER AND IT DOES NOT EVOLVE CREATION.)

ONCE YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THE FACT THAT GOD DOES NOT CREATE BY FIAT, ALL FALLS INTO PLACE. NO HE WILL NOT CAST YOU INTO SHEOL FOR SAYING SO. AFTER ALL COME 3000 A.D. HE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE “VISIBLE”  IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING AND CONVERSING WITH MAN.  E.G.

“DONT YOU KNOW ME PHILIP EVEN AFTER I HAVE BEEN AMONG YOU FOR SUCH A LONG TIME”? John 14:9

OUR EL-SHADDAI WAS THERE TALKING TO HIS PEOPLE HOWEVER CONVINCING THEM WAS THE PROBLEM.

BY  S.R.T . JANUARY 4 2015.

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