One of the definitions of “faith” is “belief that is not
based on proof.”
I was excited to hear recaps and snippets from last night’s debate
between scientist Bill Nye and creationist Ken Ham. You can read a blow-by-blow,
if not slightly skewed account from Time.com here or you can see video snippets here.
I’m intrigued at debates such as these but my faith is
either so strong or so insignificant, that I’ve not yet heard anything to
drastically change the way I think. When an evolution proponent asks questions
of a Creationist, I compare it to a playground bully saying “I bet you can’t
fly. Prove it.”
How did Noah build
that boat and why didn’t the lions eat the bunnies? Lazarus. Manna. Feeding
5,000 with two fish and five loaves of bread. Jonah surviving the inside of a
whale. Jesus walking on water. The empty tomb.
The list could go on. Could. But to question these stories
and anything else in the Bible is not having faith. I’m over-simplifying the
entire basis of religion, I’ll give you that. But anytime someone challenges my
beliefs and says “that doesn’t make sense,” I say “it doesn’t have to.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
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