In A Galaxy Far Away....

Shades of Carl Sagan! The master storytellers are at it again. But instead of the entertaining "Long, long ago, in a galaxy far away.....", we hear again the tired old tale of a universe created by a huge explosion about 13 to 14 billion years ago. And it's presented as unchallenged truth. I have always liked science fiction, but, pullleeese: Darth Vader and Mr. Spock sound more believable than the big bang THEORY.

Some scientists have claimed they have found "evidence" of when starlight first penetrated the jet black darkness of the lifeless universe billions of years ago. By looking through their super telescopes, they can see time as it was billions of years ago in light years. Notice how they throw "millions" and "billions" of years around, as if they were talking about minutes. Never mind solid, empirical evidence. You are just supposed to believe their words because their answer to the origin of the universe has GOT to be truth. Case closed.

Science insists on empirical evidence for everything, except when certain scientists want to pick and choose. Empirical means observable, or in layman's terms, it can be reproduced before the eyes in a laboratory. Sounds like that leaves out the big bang THEORY and the human evolution THEORY, for starters.

Their “scientific” evidence goes something like this: "It took a long time for gravity to get its act together and start clumping the gas together...." talking about the formation of stars. Notice how gravity is almost personified with intellect and volition, and the ability to create. If they would only go back far enough, they might reach the God of the gravity, and hit pay dirt.

I think the most unanswerable and important question in the big bang THEORY is: What Exploded? Logic demands an answer to the unstated question of: "if something exploded, what was it that exploded?" Maybe more importantly, where did it come from. The big bang doesn't answer the question of origin. It simply does, as the book of Genesis, make an emphatic statement of existence. "In the beginning GOD...". I am at least honest enough to admit that both the Genesis account and the big bang THEORY require faith, but at least Genesis names GOD as the first cause, whereas the big bang just leaves you hanging.

"IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH." Genesis 1:1 Joseph Harris www.miniedition.net

Stem Cell Research

The real issue about stem cell research is not always fully dealt with properly by most people. The issue is not about finding a cure for diseases and infirmities. The issue is not about whether to use fertilized embryos that will never be implanted in a uterus. The real issue is about when life begins and whether anyone other than God has the right to play God.

If life doesn't begin at conception, then when? To some, it may seem radical to believe that a fertilized human egg is more than just a microscopic clump of human tissue or matter(what's radical is to believe that a baby is not a human life until it sees the light of day at birth). It is certain that a fertilized egg one day old, or a cluster of stem cells, at six days, is not a developed, formed human being. But does that mean it is still not human life? And if it is life(which it certainly is), doesn't that mean that whoever chooses what happens to it, is playing God? Let me answer. YES!

We have seen Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve paraded in front of the news cameras to pull on the compassion strings of our hearts. A cure for these guys, and others, would be great. But at what price? It is never right to do wrong. If two wrongs don't make a right, then you can bet that 2000 wrongs would be 2000 times less likely to make a right. However, a society guided by a philosophy of situational ethics has fine tuned the art of justifying murder and calling it "choice", "freedom", and "research."

So now murder is research for the good of all, at the expense of the helpless, and don't think this technology won't expand to using whoever it needs at whatever age to experiment, given enough time and defusing of the American people. Anytime government begins to legislate in moral matters, and the issue of life is as moral as it gets, God comes up on the short end.

If I one day become confined to a wheelchair for whatever debilitating reason, don't you dare take another person's life for a slim, unknown chance of curing me. One person's life is just as valuable and sacred as another person's life, because we are all made in the image of God. God is the One who gives life and is supposed to be the one to take it. Liberals believe in taking money from the "haves" and giving to the "have nots". We shouldn't be surprised when we see their health redistribution philosophy is consistent with their wealth redistribution philosophy.

So, here is the answer to stem cell research. Tread lightly and use common sense when dealing with human life. Period. The end never justifies the means. All the potential good that may come from the research does not outweigh violating God's commandment to sanctify human life.  Joseph Harris www.miniedition.net