“….it’s either God made the world, or the world made itself…you have no other choice.”
Alright guys, good day!
Lastly, my pure thoughts here will be patterned to that of the elaboration of a Youtube blogger known by the name “VenomFangX” which he himself inspired his thoughts on some prominent speakers also.
Ok. We’re here. Actually, what you will be tabs on (if you’ll be patience) is actually a story of a “frog turns to a prince.” What?! A unison of science and fairy tale? Yeah, I can even see your brows tossing up now. The story could actually be prototype of the Theory Of Evolution. If you’ve been a once-upon-a-time fan of a story of the “Frog Prince,” then the theory of evolution has its own version. But, not with a kiss of a charming princess, rather a power incantation of “…billion and millions of years ago…”
When I was a kid, as I remember, we have stories in the form of “Alamat” on how land and water were hurl on space and made finally into earth. Or how the heaven made mass of lands by throwing chunks of earth to the seas when they were actually quarrelling. At least that’s how alamat told us to be. But, when we come into the open, there are two revolutionary claims and exegesis on how really the world came to be. We happen to call them “humanism” on the scientific world view and “creationism” on the religious world view.
The Theory Of Evolution – it rings a bell – it reminds you of a single person, if I have to presume that’s what you are thinking right now – Charles Darwin, right? But, no, no, no. Darwin is just a progenitor of the pro-biological stage of evolution or the development and developed organism out of non-living one. You’ll find out later that the term evolution is not just secluded to Darwin’s theory but is a long and tricky word. Clearly, Darwin doesn’t only own the Theory of Evolution but largely credited to every scientific opinions.
The Humanist world view starts by saying “wow all things great and small the Big Bang made them all.” While the Creationist commenced and says, “wow all things great and small God made them all.” Two world views in one subject – origin of everything. One must be right, one must be wrong. This is tough. We have to prove evolution is right, for religion to be wrong. Or religion to be right, for evolution to be wrong. One must be black for one to be white or either.
On the side of evolution, there are questions that would give us a second thought:
1. What is my worth and who am I? If evolution is true, you don’t actually worth anything. Your just a bunch of amoeba or something that is washed upon the shores, your nothing important. In fact since you are a polluter of the environment and a self-destructive individual, the more we can get rid of you, the better. It mustn’t hurt you since that is a normal evolutionary thinking.
2. Where did I come from? If evolution is true, you actually came from nothing and would just naturally go back to nothing. I guess the first question is enough to let you know that you’re nothing but just an effect of a cosmic flatulent billions of years ago – by mere accident. No more, no less. And that doesn’t’ give you much thinking of what will happen when you die, you know where you’re going to. Don’t expect evolution to give you further meaning to life here.
3. Why am I here, what am I doing here? If evolution is true, you’ll not be doing anything but seek pleasure – animalistic pleasure. That is how nature works with or in animals, and you came from animals, right? According to evolution you, the apes and the bananas are just one and of the same lineage. Secondly, you’re actually here on earth because there is no reason at all. If it feels good as well, then rob a bank, kill anybody you hate, rape anybody you like, smuggle government funds, make life miserable to anybody or do it as you maybe pleased. After all, you’ll gonna die someday and you might have missed the rest of your life. There is no meaning to life, right?!
4. Where am I going when I die? If evolution is true, umm, you know you came from a bacteria, and in most cases you would probably be recycled into a bacteria again or into an earthworm or amoeba or anything – or just nothing.
Now lets’s turn the canvass to the other side, and it said, “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1). You know that we can have a very different set of response to these questions if creation is therefor true. Even if you are not fond (as nobody is) of skimming few pages of the Bible, at least you have the imperatives and notion of how the bible states the creation. As of now let’s devote a little more time on it.
Genesis 3:1 said, “…and the Serpent said unto the woman, yea hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Doubt is one of the enemies of faith, that’s why Satan ends his statement in question mark to shake Eve’s faith to doubt, as what Eve did. Sadly, that seed of doubt still reverberates up to the present generation. Further the Serpent said, “…ye shall not surely die,” (Genesis 3:4). Now the devil’s getting decisive, tough and cunning. His deceptive venom is now slowly eating up every fiber of Eve’s faithful faculty. The devil’s giving us an impression that God is a liar. The next thing out of the devil’s mouth is that, “…ye shall not surely die,” (Genesis 3:5).
The last statement of the devil is actually a pillar of evolution. It did not started out of Darwin’s mouth, Satan did it first which he instituted at he garden of Eden through the instrumentality of Eve. And I guess, the final blow on Eve’s wobbling faith is when Satan said in Genesis 3:3, “…ye shall be as gods.”
From that departure you’ll see the difference now. Ok, boys and girls we started as an amoeba, a primordial soap from a cosmic burp or whatever, then to an earthworm and then we are getting better and stronger and eventually we are becoming like superman, or a god – Satan is right. The Bible states that we started as smart, intelligent individuals but ever since lost them because of sin. Evolution on the other hand said, that we started stupid, short and yucky and from that we’re just getting stronger and better by stringing of traits of whatever genetic complexity.
Satan adds, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High,”(Isaiah 14:13-14). Satan wants to be God. And he is looking for ways to establish his reign. Nonetheless, the job is not available for him to be God. So he hates God, but he can’t do anything to God. The smartest way that he could do is turn to us, he hates us in behalf of God. The Bible said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…,” (Genesis 1:26). You are made in the image and likeness of God. Every time Satan see you, you always reminds him of God. No wonder Satan hates you so much. And he is looking for the finest and the best way to pervert that lovely image of God in us, no other than to let us claim we came from animals.
Satan have a nice time on his couch laughing to his belly to individuals who have bitten the bait of evolution, ’cause he doesn’t believe it but he is glad that you do.
Evolution has long been taking its toll on every human consciousness. It is not only contained on thick and hard bound encyclicals but to every textbooks that we have in high school or even elementary. I remember our history teacher explaining to us how homo sapiens, erectus, Java man and such and such came to a fuller human beings like us now. And a VS grade is so hard won. Evolution is infiltrating every textbooks in the world, seeding every young individual’s unguarded consciousness. Well, what better way is their to do it but found it on young minds. The earlier the seeding, the firmer the evolutionary root to take arrest of every one’s mental faculty.
Perhaps, few of those lies are in the textbooks, connecting to what once Adolph Hitler said, “if you tell a lie long enough, loud enough and often enough the people will believe it.” He adds, “the people are more likely to believe in a big lies than a small ones.” Bear in mind how big the things we are talking about. What can lies give, but another bunch of lies.
Teachers are taught to teach that the earth is at least 4.5 billion years old. One textbook says, “…earth has changed a lot since it’s formation 4.5 billion years ago and so on and so forth.” Try verifying these things in your own textbooks. Teachers themselves have been the prototype of the propagation of these things. The problem is that, do the teachers know that or they just think that? Because if they say that they know that, then they must have been there 4.5 billion years ago. Obviously, they only think that since they could just have been an active or passive recipient of some evolutionary teachings some decades ago.
One inconsistencies of the theory of evolution is pointed out to be teaching that the earth is 10,000 years old during the 1800 and then by the early 1900 it was thought to be around 2 billion years old and now at dawn of the year 2000 it was thought to be 4.5 billion years old. If you have to stop and think about it, you’ll know that the earth is getting a daredevil aging process millions of years per year, and that’s simply ridiculous.
Evolution as a Tricky Word
Evolution contains at least six definition. Darwin’s methodology is one of them.
Cosmic Evolution: Simply the origin of time, space and matter through the instrumentality of the ever famous Big Bang theory. So far it has not yet been proven. It is still a scientific guesswork and there is no way of confirming them true.
Chemical Evolution: This is their explanation of the origin of the higher elements from hydrogen. Which is not proven either since it’s (still) illogical to obtain life from non-living elements.
Stellar and Planetary Evolution: This simply is the daughter of the Big Bang theory. The theory of how the stars and the planets are being formed. Still not proven logically. Nobody has seen a star or a planet being formed. They are pure fantasy and speculation arrayed together with your fairy tale series books.
Organic Evolution: The origin of life out of non-living materials. Otherwise known as Biogenesis. Which has been proven wrong couple of centuries ago. Spontaneous generation is impossible since there is no way of getting life out of barren and non-living materials.
Macro Evolution: Darwin’s greatest hits! The changing from one kind of animal to another. Of course not proven either. We have never seen a human being gave birth to a monkey or monkey gave birth to a human. We’ve never seen a snake gave birth to anything but a snake. We’ve never seen a cat gave birth to anything but a cat. We’ve never seen a mango that produced anything but a mango itself. Farmers always expect to harvest a banana every time they plant a banana, and they do.
Micro Evolution: Which is proven at last. You pick a tiger, a cheetah or lion but they are still family of cats, in other words they belong to the same kind. But a mid-air consideration has to be considered. Since one of them might have been created separately from the others as is being pictured in the Biblical creation model.
There are in fact scientists who have been breeding and making some experiments on some common houseflies and hoping to find out when a housefly will eventually not be a housefly and turn into something else. But they are still making houseflies after all these years.
Animals, as we have learn from our evolutionary academic slot, change kinds. So from a frog one turns to a prince, though not by a magical kiss but an evolutionary incantation, “…billions and billions of years ago.” Just as the revolutionary thought that we all came from monkeys and therefore look like monkeys.
The Biblical point-of-view simply explains, “…the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind…V.12…the living creature after his kind…V24.” The word kind is 10 times repeated in relation to the creation in the Bible. When we say kind, you can easily describe a tiger from a jaguar or a cheetah from a lion. So you might say, this is a lion kind, a cheetah kind, a jaguar kind and a tiger kind and so on. You have to admit it’s more easier to logically think and classify that a tiger came from a tiger family rather than a tiger came from a lion or jaguar family which was a cause of evolutionary events.
So if you admitted, if I don’t believe in evolution what should I believe? My foreword says, “….it’s either God made the world, or the world made itself…you have no other choice.” I myself I have no other choice, which is more worth believing or more logical to think? Something must always exist, since the second proposition is totally impossible. NOTHING can only create NOTHING. If you’ll try to check your textbook on how the universe came to be, they’ll tell you exactly these word, “…in the realm of the universe nothing really means nothing (wow, it’s science yet this is philosophically deep)…however this is theorized that from the state of nothingness, the universe begun in a gigantic explosion 16.5 billion years ago….” Wow, I thought I was just reading a classic fairy tale when I was just a kid. You see that! From the STATE OF NOTHINGNESS the universe existed?! A pre-schooler can without further introspection tell you that nothing can only create nothing. And yet, they still have the guts to wound a hard bound books concerning this stuff – if everything came from nothing. Isn’t it that after they have uttered the word “nothing,” evolution must end there, and so with all their books and whatsoever they kept feeding us? At this juncture, they’re teaching you fantasy – not science.
Ask someone who’s making a critical study on this matter and they’ll tell one and same thing. Science cannot further unto this realm because it’s outside of their little bubble. Their excuse is to tell you that from nothingness something must have existed – think about that! Science is as important as the air we breath. We all know how it did alleviated physical pains of this fallen world. Just one thing, science would sometimes seems to let us gobble tank-full of ”laughing gas” which draw strange grins on our faces. Nevertheless, bear in mind, we are not hating science here. Everybody still love science. I still love science the way I dreamt as a kid to fly to the moon one day. And I till love that dreaming, and I’m looking forward to that.
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Galit ka ba sa isang kurakot na politiko? Mga opisyal ng ating gobyerno? At kung sino pang mga tao sa ‘dilim’ na mapag samantala? Obyos naman siguro ang sagot dyan, “kailangan pa bang imemorize yan?”
We always seem to consider prayer as an amount or a medium of exchange to buy a commodity from God. We usually fall into our knees when we are constricted by needs and other infirmities, and forgets everything when we are casually on tract again to life. Prayer is always compartmentalized – that is, by certain grace of time and place. And other human activities are devoid of prayer itself. If we pray in times when we are dragged by needs, anxieties, anger and frustrations we see God as an over-the-counter pain reliever. That is, we remember him at this juncture and some other times his out of the blue again. Man’s faculty is brittle and fluctuating, always tantamount to ingratitude and forgetfulness. Prayer is always in danger of a vain negotiation between man and a personal and loving God.
Way back when I was just a wandering kid, learning to tie my shoe and welcoming the breeze of life unto my little nostrils, I wonder what was Rubik’s Cube for? It was so grotesque for me, I mean for me it’s more than just a toy (because of it’s symbolism. I guess you really have to read further) I was so awed by it’s multi-rotary sides and perfectly engineered mechanism. A cube within a cube. A handfuls of cube each moving in a perfect mechanical route. Consequently, a single color dangles miles and miles of moves while you don’t know the techniques yet. Thus, if you wanna see your cube still arranged correctly, then careful in twisting it the first time you bought it, else that’s the first and the last time you’ll gonna see it that way (except if you excuse me putting them back, lol!).
Each family finds within itself summons that cannot be ignored, and that specifies both dignity and its responsibility: family, becomes what you are looking at it in such a way as to reach its very roots, we must say that the essence and role of the family are in the final analysis specified by love. Hence the family has the mission to guard, reveal and communicate love. Thus, love as its point of departure and making constant reference to it, the recent Synod emphasized four general tasks of the family: 1) forming a community of persons, 2) serving life, 3) participating in the development of the society, 4) sharing in the life and mission of the church (PJPII, Familiaris Consortio).
When the lord made man, all the parts of the body argued over who would be boss. The Brain explained that since he controlled all the parts of the body, he should be the boss. The Legs argued that they should be boss, since they could take the body anywhere it wanted. The Stomach argued with explanation that since he digested all the food, he kept the body healthy; therefore he should be the boss. The Eyes said that without vision, man could not see where he was going; therefore they should be the boss. The Rectum spoke up and applied for the job. The other parts of the body laughed so hard. Embarrassed, the Rectum closed up. After few days the Brain got so foggy; the Legs became wobbly; the Stomach became ill, the Eyes crossed and could not see.
Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. They agreed on a route and started off the race. The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far ahead of the tortoise, he thought he would sit under a tree for some time and relax before continuing the race. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ. The hare woke up and realized that he had lost the race.
It would be a vain enterprise if we would try to contend Filipino philosophy with that of the megalithic brain works of the western philosophers who are obviously diverse and idealistic from our own. Filipinos are engrossed with the scruples of the heart than that of the brain. You can easily pick a Filipino out of the many by working on the cistern of his emotions – his heart level. And in the same line of argument, a Filipino can be facilely scoped-up among the radically contrastive showcases of value systems around the world by his profound reverence towards elders.