by VM44 22 Replies latest jw friends
And there are a handful of "scientists" who are young-earth creationists, believe UFO's landed in New Mexico and that the city of Atlantis was inhabited by superhuman people who were more technologically advanced than us today.
There are quacks in every field.
Bradley
In my years of doing scientific research, I have never encountered a conflict between a proved scientific fact and a teaching of the Bible.
Really? *cough* Perhaps you didn't look...
Often, seeming conflicts are caused by a lack of knowledge--either of a scientific teaching or of what the Bible really says. For example, some scientists and others erroneously think that the Bible teaches that plants, animals, and humans all developed on earth within six literal 24-hour days. This would be in conflict with known scientific facts. But the Bible does not teach that. Rather, it reveals that the creative "days" encompass thousands of years.*
And all those fossils in all of that rock formed in just a couple of years...right!
Confusion also arises from the mistaken idea that faith in God is merely an emotional experience. Far from that, faith in God and the Bible is based on facts that can be verified. As defined in the Bible, "faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration [or, "convincing evidence," footnote] of realities though not beheld." (Hebrews 11:1) Yes, faith is based on evidence. Hundreds of prophecies have been fulfilled in the past and in our day. Thus, even applying the scientific method used by all scientists to establish a scientific theory, we can have complete confidence in the fulfillment of Bible prophecies that pertain to future events.
It's just that he doesn't even hint at which prophecies he's talking about. He might as well be discussing the Coming of Spongebob Squarepants, for all that's worth. Argh!
It is interesting how much the WTS stresses the scientific references that they have, and talk about thoroughly researched...blah, blah, blah, blah.....They have a way of presenting their research in such a manner that no "good" JW would dare look up the references and refute them.
They pick and choose what they want of course, like most do when adding footnotes to articles or research. Sometimes they get so caught up in trying to look scientific that they forget that common sense should prevail.
Remember the big blue Creation book that came out in the late 80s? I absolutely loved this book when I was a teenager...I placed one with my biology teacher in 10th grade. To read it as an adult though, I think a first year college student of even a well read high school senior could write better material.
Just because someone has a scientific degree doesn't mean they any more common sense. It sounds like this scientist has allowed his scientific interest to be soooo narrow that he wouldn't understand any scientific proof that would seem to disagree with the bible.
As for me, scientific proof would mean nothing, since I don't think the bible is inspired of god, but written by men who were just inspired to look at their everyday lives and try to put an extraordinary spin on the events happening to them.
Am I the only one who caught this:
I was ordained as a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses
Unless a lot has changed, this is a rather strange thing for a witness to say...
Perhaps this particular "Nuclear Scientist" has decided to use a pseudonym to protect his true identity of "Homer J. Simpson".
Like I said before, just because someone is a scientist does not mean that they should be trusted or that they have very good credentials in their field or in the game of life. Take "biologist" Jonathan Wells, for instance. He wrote a book called "Icons of Evolution" which attacked Darwinism. And he also is a member of the Unifcation Church, better known as THE MOONIES! Yep, that's right, the Moonies! Should he be trusted? Should the JW "scientist's" opinions outside of his field be trusted? I think not.
http//:www.geocities.com/lclane2/wells.html
Bradley
Hi simwitness,
Am I the only one who caught this:
I was ordained as a minister of Jehovah's WitnessesUnless a lot has changed, this is a rather strange thing for a witness to say...
When I first began associating in 1968, this was a common expression, and I found myself using it for several years ... then the term "Service" replaced Ministry, etc. Then, the term showed up again for a while, but mostly used by the Society in their publications and Convention talks ... I suspect, as I noted above, the man's article was obviously sanitized by an Awake! writer ...
Is this Alton Williams?
It looks like the Nigerian scammer that Nosferatu played with.
Hi DevonMcBride,
Yes, that is the man.
--VM44
There are several unusual statements or choices of words in this article.
One is the following:
Later, a supervisor from the Alabama A. & M. University in Huntsville called me.
Usually the term "supervisor" is NOT used within a department with regard to hiring new faculty. The Dean or committee chairman would contact a person with a job offer.
In all, this article does not "sound" right.
--VM44
