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Whenever British professor Kevin Warwick steps through the front door of his home, bizarre things begin to happen: The lights come on automatically; the air conditioning systems immediately begin to adjust the temperature of the building; music begins to play.
When Warwick scratches his head, his computer roars to life. When he enters a certain room of the house, wine begins to chill.
The reason? Warwick has had a silicon chip implanted in his neck, containing all the instructions for carrying out these tasks! For this reason, Paul Harvey referred to Warwick as "half man, half machine."
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Although the steady advance of technology can cause us to feel a little insignificant—like some part of a giant computer application—we shouldn't forget that we human beings ARE the crown of God's creation.
Source: "Paul Harvey News," 8/29/1998.
Topics/Tags: Human beings; God, creator; Technology
"In the twentieth century, conflicting concepts of the nature and value of man have been at war.
"Pushed to the extreme, Darwinism would say that man is not a jewel in the pig's snout but merely the accidental result of the evolution of the pig.
"Marx looked at man's inhumanity to man in industry and declared that man is a cog in a machine, his identity determined by materialism.
"Kierkegaard, and in a different philosophical context Sartre and Heidegger, saw man as an existential bundle of loneliness and anxiety, crying out into the night.
"Freud taught that man is a collection of instincts and drives, far from a free moral agent.
"Nietzsche felt morality to be weakness and the Christian ethic, a slave morality; the amoral man is the superman.
"All these men have influenced our lives, and any of these views taken without correction and limitation reduces man to an animal. To discover who man really is, we must go to the Bible. There we find that man is a paradox, man has a problem, … and man has potential."
Source: Earl C. Davis, in "Proclaim," 1983 #4, p. 9.
Topics/Tags: God, creator; Philosophy; Humanity
"I hold that there is a general beauty in the works of God, and therefore no deformity in any kind or species of creature whatsoever. I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly, they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward form, and having passed the general visitation of God, who saw that all he had made was good, that is, conformable to his will, which abhors deformity and is the rule of order and beauty."
— Thomas Browne
Source: "Christian Leadership" email discussion list
Topics/Tags: God, goodness of; Beauty; God, creator; Creation
On 11/13/1996, a robot was programmed to move around a room at the State University of New York. Not a particularly unusual feat—except that, in this case, the programmer was another robot, not a human being. It was the first time that one robot had programmed another robot without human intervention. Dr. Kevin Warwick called it "a major breakthrough for ‘machinekind.'"
Asked whether he was concerned if computers would be able to overtake humankind, Warwick said, "We're all right for the next 10 years but after that it starts to get worrying. It could have apocalyptic consequences for mankind after the next 15-20 years."
Although the steady advance of technology can cause us to feel a little insignificant—like some part of a giant computer application—we shouldn't forget that we human beings ARE the crown of God's creation.
Source: InfoBeat, 11/14/1996
Topics/Tags: Technology; Human beings; God, creator
A philosopher once approached a rabbi and declared that he didn't believe in God. He argued that the universe, the world, and all of life came into being through natural, random means, without any outside intervention.
The rabbi said nothing, but some time later returned to the philosopher with a profoundly moving poem written on parchment paper in perfect calligraphic lettering.
The philosopher, impressed, asked who had written the poem. The rabbi responded that no human being had written the poem. Instead, he said, "The paper was simply lying on my desk when a cat knocked over the inkwell. This is the result of that accident."
The philosopher responded, "That's simply impossible. Something this beautiful and perfect couldn't have happened by random chance. Somebody must have written the poem and put it to paper."
The rabbi replied: "You said yourself that the universe, the world and life, which are more beautiful and wondrous than any poem, came into being by random chance. Why do you doubt the same for this simple, humble poem?"
Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 9/14/1997, p. 9E.
Topics/Tags: Design; Creation; God, creator
Since its launch and subsequent repair, the Hubble Space Telescope has produced some astounding photographs of outer space. In December 1995, some of the first truly remarkable pictures began to be studied. These pictures revealed that what astronomers had previously been able to identify only as a "spot" in the sky actually contains at least 1,500 new galaxies we humans had never seen before! In 1998, more pictures from the Hubble Telescope have led scientists to rethink their most basic theories about the universe, concluding that the universe is actually still expanding, and will probably never stop expanding. Scientists now calculate that there are at least 50 billiion galaxies in the known universe.
We are reminded that the scope of God's creative power is so infinite that the finite human mind will never quite fathom it.
Source: Newsweek, 1/29/1996; excite.com, 12/9/1998.
Topics/Tags: Space; Creation; God, creator
A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the
loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down.
After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply (actual letter):
"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral proper back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin."
Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows (actual letter):
"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person
in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The land came into possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the then reigning monarch, Isabella. The good queen, being a pious woman and careful about titles, almost as much as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to fund Columbus' expedition.
Now the Pope, as I'm sure you know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. And God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that He also made that part of the world called Louisiana. He, therefore, would be the owner of origin. I hope you find His original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"
They got it.
Source: unknown
Topics/Tags: Bureaucracy; God, creator; Ownership; Property
"HOLD THIS GAVEL WHILE I SHOUT!"
Some twenty years ago delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention got an old-fashioned treat in the eloquent preaching of Rev. S. M. Lockridge.
Typical of the poetic phrases used to describe the glory of Christ's Lordship were these:
He "precedes all others...He is Captain of the conquerors, Leader of the legislators, Hero of the heroes, King of princes and Lord of lords...
"He didn't have to put His signature at the corner of a sunrise because He's the owner," the preacher thundered with a deep, resonant voice.
"He didn't have to put His name on a laundry tag for the meadows...or carve His initials on the mountains or take out a copyright on the songs He gave the birds to sing," Lockridge sang in his tribute to Christ's ownership of all Creation.
The preacher prompted applause from the audience in his criticism of those who say that God is dead: "Who assassinated Him?" he wondered. "What coroner was called? Who was so well acquainted with Him that he could identify the deceased? Why was I not called as a member of the family?" he asked amid applause and amens.
When the preacher concluded his sermon, Convention President W. A. Criswell held his right arm high and cried, "Somebody hold this gavel while I shout!"
Source: Sword
Topics/Tags: Jesus, the christ, lordship of; Preaching; God, creator; Sermon
"There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage." - William Jennings Bryan
Source: William Jennings Bryan. Qtd. in Instant Quotation Dictionary, p. 122.
Topics/Tags: God, creator; Creation; Evolution
A little girl crawled up into her great grandmother's lap one day. And looking up into her great grandmother's face she saw all those crevices, lines, and wrinkles. Then she felt her own smooth baby-like skin. She said to her great grandmother, "Did God make you?" Her great grandmother said, "Yes honey, God made me." Then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, did God make me?" Her great grandmother said, "Oh yes, God made you too." And then the little girl said, "Well great grandmother, don't you think God's doing a lot better job these days?"
- Mike Minix
Source: Mike Minix
Topics/Tags: God, creator; Children; Old age; Beauty
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