Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Primal mind? What mind is this? Minds think! What does this mind think about? By this mystical view, there is no mystery concerning how life came out of dead elements. Matter itself is alive and active in planning its own destiny! If that is true, then who needs God for anything? No one, of course, say atheists! In order to avoid the God to whom all the evidence points, many scientists cling to the same arbitrary rejection of the facts in order not to be accountable to their Creator. Evolutionary biologist and geneticist Richard Lewontin’s views are typical:

“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment . . . to materialism. . . .”