Ones World View

In this first news letter I would like to deal with ones world view. Ever person has a view whether they realize it or not. It’s your perception of the world and the events that occur in it. I like to think of it as what a person chooses to do in a given situation.
For example suppose you have the opportunity to steal a considerable amount of money knowing that you would not get caught. Would you? The answer to that question indicates a world view.
Other ways our view comes out is in our behavior towards others. For example if you have been wronged how do you respond? Our view comes from our ideas. Our ideas dictate our behavior through thoughts and feelings. Therefore our ideas concerning reality or our perception of reality are paramount to how we act and interact with others.
The idea that we have evolved is one that is accepted by many as reality. And there are consequences in that world view. I will deal with some of those issues in future letters. For now I wish to have you consider some new ideas. Evolution proposes that all things have come into being by chance and random processes to produce the incredible complexity that we see around us, especially in living systems. Those that hold that view say that all things started from nothing. I’m not sure what nothing is. Others say that there always was matter and with the help of a big bag, billions of years ago things started moving and some how from matter life began. Now that view takes some faith; that is one must accept that as a presupposition for the rest of the theory, and it is a theory. However this idea has become so firmly entrenched in our education system that most people believe it to be true. End of discussion.
And if you hold to the idea of a great designer you’re considered ignorant, or a bigoted Christian fundamentalist. Yet there are literally thousands of scientist, physicist, and others that reject this theory. In the future I will supply you with information about those men and women who reject evolution because they have learned to think and recognize the difference between scientific facts, which can be observed in the present, and ideas about the past which can be used to interrupt the facts.
When you observe a 747 in the sky what do you think? It certainly took energy and power to put it together; but even more than that it took intelligence; a mind! The complexity of that 747; its design, complexity, functionality, does not come close to any warm blooded creature great or small that walks the earth. The real questions are; did matter create mind (intelligence) or did a mind create matter ? We will consider more in my next letter. Please do not be offended. If you disagree lets discuss. Go to my blog and make a comment.