Note: the message is from a Church member and does not
necessarily reflect the views of all members, but that is true of everything
in the Church.
Message to the Texas Freethought Convention
by Ehsan
Why Deists Acknowledge God?
Deists do not care about the names; they focus on how
the phenomena witnessed in nature bear signs of
attributes of design and Supreme mind. They frequently
explain how our human reason and ethics demand that
these inferences must be acknowledged.
Deists do
not blindly acknowledge any hearsay about nature or the
nature’s God. We appeal to open minded free thinking
people to look at the evidences of order, coherence, a
single, integral organic system and signs of
intelligence and think about why should these not point
to confirmation of the hypothesis of a Supreme mind
behind them. Deists never shy away from looking at
anything that has been confirmed from the last 150 years
of overall general or specific analytical observations
of science. In general they pose a question how the
universally attested tender care that humanity receives
in the lap everyone affectionately calls Mother Nature
could come about without any intention, decision, plan
and design?
Blind religious adherents may use the
same word God, however one should not be deceived by the
words, names, or labels. The attributes of the two
conceptions are worlds apart. Deists derive all
attributes of the Supreme manager from revealed
evidences in His created nature and have been
enthusiastic to explain with reasons. False religions do
not even give such right to any laymen to ask questions
about evidences for the sayings of priests and popes.
Their description of their objects of worship, some
ungod, with fabricated conflicting attributes can be
anything but the Supremely Intelligent, Just,
Benevolent, and All Powerful God deists attest. They use
their ungod, through forged tales, to indoctrinate
humans to dump reason, close their eyes, avoid
self-respect and equal status all focused to pick
pockets of the laymen.
It is an opportunity to
briefly review just some of the reasons why deists are
convinced of a Supreme Intelligent Cosmological
Management that in short form the name the benevolent
God.
A General Overall Observation
Continuous journey towards perfection, the evolution,
is universally witnessed. This is ongoing improvement
and is not business as usual or just reshuffling, it is
development; a continuity in creation, imparting the
creation over and above what that they got at creation.
How on earth a process which results in the appearance
of Socrates can be accepted as random interactions and
mindless fluctuations?
An Analytical
Examination
Lately each of our body cell is seen as an
independent miniature national state with constitutional
government through strict law enforcing. Integral to
that is the finding that it cannot continue its life
function without a control manager, the nucleus.
Similarly there is consensus that all our cells in their
specific organs coherently function as slaves of a king-
our conscious and unconscious mind. Now evidences of
order, integral organic working system and signs of
intelligence, similar to the living cell and organism
when observed in the universe must make a strong case
for a control centre with intelligent mind.
Deistic Tradition of Being Humbleness in
Submission to Evidences
Newton could easily have touted his intelligence
while presenting his theory of gravity that he devised
the theory first and found the evidence later in falling
apple. He humbly expressed that his close observation of
the natural phenomena inspired him the natural law.
Deists try to continue this tradition and bow in
respect of evidence and turn wherever it leads.
Scientists learn from nature to split water
August
17, 2008
An international team of
researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals
found in plants to replicate a key process in
photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that
uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Sustainable Agriculture - What Ants Knew 50 Million
Years Before We Did
2008
Learning from Nature: Flying creatures may help create
aviation of future
By Alan Levin, USA TODAY
"Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good
deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician."
— Orville Wright
On the wings of a dragonfly; the way a dragonfly flies
may inspire new aircraft designs.
To Innovate, Learn from Nature
September 10
Nature has had more than 3.8 billion years to perfect
its survival strategy. Today, innovators and engineers
are applying biomimicry practices to design products and
solve engineering problems. For example, carpet
manufacturer Interface created its nonglue carpet tiles
by studying lizards’ feet.
Airliners could save fuel by taking a hint from birds
flying in formation
June 1, 2009 BY EMMANUEL ROMERO
A Stanford simulation of how commercial airliners might
fly in formation to save fuel.
