More Quotes from Scientists regarding origin of life...

And yet they still claim there is no chance an Intelligent Designer created the earth? 

Dr. George Whitesides (Organic Chemist, Harvard University, highest Hirsch-index rating of any living chemist):

How? I have no idea. Based on all the chemistry I know it seems astonishingly improbable.

Dr. Chrisopher Mckay (Astrophysicist, NASA):

The origin of life remains a scientific mystery… we do not know how life originated on earth.

Dr. Werner Arber (Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1978):

Although a biologist, I must confess that I do not know how life came about… How such already quite complex structures may have come together remains a mystery to me.

Dr. Harold P. Klein (1921-2001), Astrobiologist, NASA):

The simplest bacterium is so damn complicated from the point of view of a chemist that it is almost impossible to imagine how it happened.

Dr. Christian DeDuve (Cytologist, Biochemist, Nobel Prize-Medicine, 1974):

How this momentous event happened is still highly conjectural, though no longer purely speculative. (Wordnet Online Dictionary: Conjecture: (A) Noun – a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating…usually with little hard evidence. (Synonym – speculation) (B)Verb-to believe on uncertain or tentative grounds (synonym – speculate)

Professor Richard Dawkins (Biologist, High Priest of Atheism in the 21^st Century):

(A) Nobody knows how it happened. (Climbing Mt. Improbable) (B) “I told you I don’t know…nor does anyone else.” (From the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed)

Etc, Etc, Etc… It is critical to note that the daunting challenges scientists face in discovering a naturalistic origin of life is not due to their ignorance about the chemistry of the simplest living organisms, it is in fact exactly the opposite. The more scientists learn about the seemingly endless layers of complexity in the simplest living cells the more vexing the puzzle becomes.

Source: http://christian-apologetics.org/2011/rabbi-moshe-averick-the-theist-holds-the-intellectual-high-ground/

Misconceptions - 4. God is Evil

When I am debating Atheists I find that, when you dispelled all of their 'scientific' reasons why God doesn't exist (one such  reason being Evolution) they turn to the character of God & why suffering happens. Whilst I covered suffering a few weeks ago twice. I haven't covered the strange Atheist argument that God is Evil.

This opinion is most famously expressed by Richard Dawkins in his widely seeling book 'The God Delusion':-


'the God of the Old Testament is...petty, unjust, vindictive, bloodthirsty, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal...'


My first thought on reading it this is that Dawkins has clearly not read the Bible! I think this quote pleases Atheists and riles Christians not because it is true, but because it is a blatant lie being propagated as truth.

Rabbi Moshe Averick (a Jewish rabbi would know the Old Testament very well) in his new book 'Nonsense of High Order' responds to this as such:-

'Can an intellectually honest and open minded person ignore the fact that this same deity commands the Israelites not to take revenge or bear a grudge, to view the use of inaccurate weights in business as an abomination, to view all human beings as created in the image of God, to open our hands wide to those in poverty, not to oppress the stranger who lives among us, to leave a portion of every field unharvested for the poor, never go to war against an enemy without first offering peace, that "justice, justice shall your pursue", to "love your neighbor as yourself"?


Atheists will bring up passages where God has commanded that certain acts will be condemned by death with some of them being seen as particularly harsh in today's world. But the problem for them is this:-

1. Context - what may be harsh today may have been perfectly reasonable when commanded. Also, Old Testament commandments were fulfilled in Jesus so that Grace comes by following Him not these laws. God knows the context of today too!
2. Morality - How can argue with God about His morality? HE invented morality!?! He invented Justice! You could say that instead you are arguing with Christians about God's morality, but the problem there is how you do account for the existence of morality without the existence of a higher power? No answer I have ever seen has been anywhere near satisfactory and often have Atheists declaring that rape etc. is okay if someone decides it is.
3. Attitude - the Israelites never just decided to kill off a group. The groups that were killed off were groups practicing child sacrifice and other detestable things which God hated and wanted gone.

Ephesians 2:4-5

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

1 John 4:10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

God is not evil, He all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving and all-amazing! 

Hahaha

I am throughly enjoying my new book - 'Nonsense of a High Order - The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist' by Rabbi Moshe Averick. (I highly recommend getting this book to Christians, interested Agnostics & truth seeking Atheists alike) The ideas that people such as Dawkins & Hitchens has brought up have been condemned to the trash by Averick and I wonder if they'll ever respond to this book and would be interested if they did, for this book is very very good in its criticism and its own ideas.

One thing, at the end of a chapter, Averick linked to is this, it made me laugh!

http://www.us.net/life/

On this website they offer a prize of $50,000 a year for the next 20 years for anyone who can propose a 'highly plausible mechanism for the spontaneous rise of genetic instructions in nature sufficient to gave rise to life. To win, the explanation must be consistent with empirical biochemical, kinetic, and thermodynamic concepts...and be published in a well-respected, peer-reviewed science journal'.

No 'highly plausible' explanation has been presented for the naturalistic origin of life. The evidence all points to a supernatural creator and once Scientists stop making assumptions that there is no God and start testing assumptions like they are supposed to then maybe they will find something they didn't want to find and thought they never could.

If you do have a highly plausible explanation, go and enjoy the $50,000 a year for the next 20 years!