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A: These days it seems as though everyone is jumping into the creation/evolution debate. Not wanting to be left out, Harvard announced a new multimillion dollar research project, the “Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative.” They’re setting aside $1 million a year to try to prove what they already believe.
Listen to what a Harvard professor of chemistry and chemical biology told the New York Times about the origin of life: “My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention.”
For all the PhDs that Harvard may hand out—and for all the good science they may do—none of it is important when it comes to eternity. If they’re producing atheists, then what’s the point in the long run?
As Matthew 16 tells us, “What profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
Read the full story at "Harvard allocates millions to prove there is no God" at the AIG website.
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Disproving divine interference is not disproving a deity. Deities by their very nature cannot be disproven, if they could be then it would be clear that specific deities didn't exist, and no one can say for certain any deities don't exist or do exist. The existance of a deity is a matter of faith, and one's faith must be very weak if they feel that the efforts of a University to explain and model abiogenesis could somehow disprove the deity they place their faith in. Besides a million dollars a year is a small price for Harvard to pay for something that could yield such interesting information.
Wakim, Thank you for your comments. I appreciate that you read the blog posting and took the time to comment. I think you may have missed my point. I hope I haven't missed yours as well.
I agree with your first sentence. Of course, I don't think they can even disprove divine interference so I believe it is a waste to spend millions of dollars trying to do so. This was generally the point of the news article.
Deities however can be disproven. I believe the Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, Word of God. There is more than enough evidence given by God to prove that to all but those who are willing ignorant. Fulfilled prophecy, the survival of the Jews, scientific accuracy, and the list goes on and on. Books have been written on the subject. Josh McDowell's "Evidence That Demands A Verdict" is a good place to start or the website www.answersingenesis.org
That being said, the Bible plainly teaches there is but one God. There are other created spiritual beings (Satan and the demons are fallen angels) but no other deities. In fact it was wanting to be accepted as a deity that got Lucifer thrown out of Heaven (Is. 14, Ez. 28).
Neither the author of the article nor I gave any indication that our faith was threatened by the waste of millions of dollars by Harvard. We merely pointed it out as a fact.
I hardly would call a million dollars a year "a small price". I would recommend to anyone that they read the whole article that was referenced in the original blog.
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