Louis Gaussen, writing in 1840:
"While anatomists have been unable to explain the use of the liver in the human body, or of antennae in that of insects, they have not on that account found nature in fault; they have put it all to the account of their own ignorance. Why, then, when you happen not yet to have discovered the use of something that is said in the Scriptures, do you lay the blame on any but yourselves, and why will you not wait?"
God-Breathed: The Divine Inspiration of the Bible
2 comments:
good quote.
it's interesting to note that while we have "discovered" the purposes of the two things he lists, there is plenty more yet to be discovered. however, the attitude has changed within the scientific community.
i recently heard a man mocking the idea of design because the image that reaches the back of our eye is reversed and our brain must then flip it back over. according to him, we actually "see" upside-down and the brain must then rearrange it. despite the fact that this works, he mocked it as foolishness and proof that we either do not have a designer or we have a very foolish one.
and unfortunately, this kind of arrogance can creep into the church too....where we deem passages or even books of the bible as obsolete and unnecessary for today.
You might inform your incredulous (and obviously brilliant) friend that a camera does the same thing: proving, I suppose, that a camera either has no designer or a very foolish one.
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