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Comments on: George Gilder Has A Very Big, Economy Boosting Idea https://www.aoiusa.org/george-gilder-has-a-very-big-economy-boosting-idea/ A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 By: Fr. Johannes Jacobse https://www.aoiusa.org/george-gilder-has-a-very-big-economy-boosting-idea/#comment-29906 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:26:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12952#comment-29906 In reply to Michael Bauman.

Another point. If the universe was indeed random (no overarching or penetrating logic/intelligence existed) as the Darwinian creation story contends, then where did the laws the govern matter come from? The only possible answer is from matter itself. (Theological evolution does not work because that negates the axiom that the universe was random.)

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By: Michael Bauman https://www.aoiusa.org/george-gilder-has-a-very-big-economy-boosting-idea/#comment-29905 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:56:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12952#comment-29905 James, the real problem with evolutionary theory is that it is based on philosophical naturalism and therefore cannot account for origins in any other way than material processes. There are a lot of holes. They really can’t account for the existence of life at all. Even a well known atheist, Thomas Nagel, has written a book recently calling into question the adequacy of that kind of approach: Mind and Cosmos. I haven’t read it, but I understand that it created a bit of consternation in the evolutionary community.

Remember, facts are meaningless outside of context. The a priori assumptions that one uses to identify, select, organize and interpret facts is the context. Such assumptions even determine what is considered a fact and what is not.

Two vastly different fundamental assumptions:

Evolutionists: No God, no divine intelligence nothing unseen, all material. The organization and life we see around us and in us just happens. No reason, no motive, just “billions and billions of stars”. We are a cosmic accident.

Orthodox Christians: A loving Triune God creates from love out of nothing both visible and invisible creatures and material things imbuing them with His life and us with His image and likeness. Hence man is at the center of creation as mediator between the seen and the unseen.

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By: James Bradshaw https://www.aoiusa.org/george-gilder-has-a-very-big-economy-boosting-idea/#comment-29882 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:51:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12952#comment-29882 In reply to geo michalopulos.

My knowledge of evolutionary theory is limited, and I’m hoping someone can explain something in a way that even a non-scientific person like myself can understand because Google isn’t telling me: how does Darwinism explain how complex systems formed over time? For example, before there was a circulatory system (which requires a beating heart and a network of blood vessels), what was there? Further, how could an organism that possessed this crude and non-functioning system exist long enough to transmit this information onward to another physical being via reproduction or some other mechanism?

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By: geo michalopulos https://www.aoiusa.org/george-gilder-has-a-very-big-economy-boosting-idea/#comment-29773 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:12:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12952#comment-29773 The creation myth of Darwinism will crumble in time.

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