Trees, Versailles
Greetings,
I am thankful to God today for a good formal academic review from my PhD advisor, but there is much more work to do. I am also thankful for discovering through the internet a product called Klear Screen which is alcohol and ammonia free and cleans glossy LCD screens like mine and works better than water as a cleaner. A little bit of water cleans the screen but at least on my screen leaves mineral deposits which are now gone. Plastic LCD screens should be cleaned differently than glass monitor screens which can be cleaned with traditional glass cleaner.
On the Albert Mohler program today I listened to a friendly debate between Mohler and atheist Susan Jacoby. I side more with Mohler's reasoning, but agree with Mohler that Jacoby made a good point when stating that many Christians do not know their Bible well enough for the importance they attach to it.
http://www.albertmohler.com/radio_show.php?cdate=2007-02-22
I presented the argument below in a comment in a different form on satire and theology. It concerns meaning in life. As far as meaning is concerned, the following does not on its own demonstrate God's existence or everlasting life.
Premise 1: Strictly speaking, there is no scientific, empirical evidence for everlasting life.
Premise 2: The deduction is made that Donald Trump being a billionaire receives a life quality rating of 9/10.
Premise 3: The deduction is made that the male drug addict on Main and/or Hastings Street in Vancouver receives a life quality rating of 1/10.
Premise 4: Both of these men shall die and since they cannot take their physical body or any of their material possessions with them their life quality ratings will drop to 0/10. Neither person can take any of their earthly success with them because they are unconscious and dead and all that exists physically is their remains.
Premise 5: Trump's life will likely provide a superior legacy to that of the drug addict and some will at least enjoy Trump's legacy, and perhaps some will enjoy the legacy of the drug addict but as the centuries and millennia go by the legacy of both men will fade. Even with Trump's legacy all persons that enjoy his life work will die and not consciously remember Trump or experience his impact.
Conclusion: Human life is not substantially meaningful, if permanently terminated.
Outside of this argument may I state that the Christian understanding is that the Bible provides a historically based theology of meaningful everlasting life for believers through the atoning work and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ was empirically viewed by followers in his resurrection form although everlasting life itself has not been empirically, scientifically demonstrated. The culmination of the Kingdom of God would provide repeated verifiable scientific evidence of everlasting human life.
Thanks for reading.
