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Posts Made By: Kerry Hodgkinson

April 29, 2004 01:22 PM Forum: Religion

GREAT WEB SITE: GodAndScience.org

Posted By Kerry Hodgkinson

GREAT WEB SITE: www.GodAndScience.org

April 29, 2004 04:13 PM Forum: Religion

"Observe the Ant..."

Posted By Kerry Hodgkinson

Observe the smallest of creatures, such as the ant. It may have found it's way to the handle of your picnic basket. Does the ant know where it trods? Does it know that the basket is located in a park, within a city, on a continent, surrounded by oceans? Does it know that it's habitat is upon a globe, circling a star, which orbits a galactic center with millions of other "suns"? Or that "his" galaxy is only one of millions more? No, the tiny ant has no understanding what lays beyond it's tiny travels and these other dimensions of knowledge are far beyond the ant's limited comprehension.

Are we, mankind's greatest intellectual generation, so bold and so vain as to advocate nothing lay beyond this universe? To claim there is not a being like God, or no other universal realms such as "heaven" (or a hell) or no E.T.'s such as angels would be like the ant declaring that oceans or outer space does not exist.

If mankind, collectively, declares that it knows the limits of creation and is approaching the total of knowledge, then perhaps, we may be less wise than the ant, for we have detected no such pronouncements from below.