{"id":5255,"date":"2009-08-16T23:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2009-08-16T23:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:46:59","slug":"a-c-grayling-a-product-of-unintelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-c-grayling-a-product-of-unintelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"A. C. Grayling: a product of unintelligent design"},"content":{"rendered":"

A. C. Grayling wants a good world with peace and freedom for all. According to him, the way to achieve this is to throw out religion and concentrate on science. This is an odd contradiction for someone who claims to place reason over revelation: science is concerned with the investigation and explanation of physical phenomena and has nothing to say about the value of the phenomena. Goodness,<\/em> peace<\/em> and freedom<\/em> are values that existed long before science and will exist long after it; they are outside its purview.<\/p>\n

He has written an extraordinarily foolish article in the Guardian; there are so many errors in it that it is hard to know where to start. One stands out in particular because it is in the title: he quotes incorrectly from the bible:<\/p>\n

Someone once said “by their works ye shall know them”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not sure who the someone was, other than Grayling, but Jesus said, Ye shall know them by their fruits (Matt7:16). <\/em>If he can\u2019t even get the title of the article right, can we expect much better from the body. Here\u2019s another tidbit:<\/p>\n

the battle that underlies it all: the battle (to put it in Voltaire’s terms) between those who seek the truth and those who claim to have it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Voltaire actually said:<\/p>\n

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good advice, since, by Voltaire\u2019s standard, we should beware the likes of Grayling and Dawkins as they and other devout atheists of their ilk are adamant that Darwin found, in evolution, the truth about how life appeared. Christians would not claim to either have <\/em>the truth or to have found<\/em> it; truth is revealed to humanity by God, principally through the incarnation of his Son and through the bible.<\/p>\n

There is a lot more nonsense including the usual accusation that religion produces violence \u2013 even though the 20-21stC atheist regimes have killed more people than all religions put together; religion stifles science \u2013 even though many of the greatest scientists were Christians; and proponents of intelligent design are all half witted even though some of the brightest minds of today argue in favour of it.<\/p>\n

The entire article by this bombastic phlyarologist is here<\/a>, for those who have the stomach for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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