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THE GODS OF NATURALISM HAVE NO GO
Best tell them, Begone!
Robert E. Donaldson
Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
First Published
August 2004
ISBN 0 9752175 9 3
as a TRILOGY:
Published January 2005
as a TETRAD
Published June 2006
extended through September 2006
ISBN for the Tetrad 0 9775556 3 1
Volume I
ISBN 09757291 2 8
Volume II
ISBN 09757291 3 6
Volume III
ISBN 0 9757291 4 4
Volume IV
ISBN 09775556 2 3
thus constituting this unit a TETRAD, which may be called the NOGO TETRAD,
while retaining its generic title
THE GODS OF NATURALISM HAVE NO GO
PREFACE
It should be noticed carefully that 'gods' and 'go' differ by one letter. That letter is 'd', the first letter of 'dynamic' and that is precisely what is missing in the gods of naturalism. If you should, before we go further, wish to take an acronym, since you may be averse to long titles (but this one is relatively short, compared with some), then you can get 'gonahang'. This is rather macabre sounding, but it is not far from the fate of these gods which did not make heaven and earth. The way Jeremiah puts it is this:
"The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth
shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens."
To be sure, it is not precisely uttered that the method of perishing will be by 'hanging', and it is the case that the source of that term is simply the 'have no go' acronymically treated to form ha n g. But it all hangs together! Indeed, it is most relevant, since it is noticing the evacuation of power to make heaven and earth from the domain of the gods of the creation. It is a significant vacuity, as if a student did everything right, but write, in an examination!
In fact, we could have made the acronym instead, gonathang, by simply adding the 't' after the 'na' of naturalism, but this is becoming ghoulish, and who wants ghouls ? Still, 'go, nature gods, hang!' would then be the sense of it, and this is not far off in this, that it sounds more peremptorily dismissive of their ludicrous pretensions to majesty, and this is what Zephaniah (2:11) declares from God on that point:
"The LORD will be awesome to them,
For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth!"People shall worship Him, each one from his place,
Indeed all the shores of the nations."
In so acting, as the NASB has its rendering, "He will starve the gods of the earth", and it is in no lean measure because of the ludicrous abuse of His people by those who do not fear God, but instead "have taunted and become arrogant against the LORD of hosts."
The LORD is unimpressed with boastful bashing, arrogation of deity's power by things born and to die at command, through the imagination of their hearts, with the ludicrous cultural captivity of religion by which what has no divine power invents gods for its national or projected power and invades nations (or slowly murders them at choice...) in their name!
It is like a motor car invading the house of its manufacturer, shouting, 'My cylinders have done it!' and 'I am the mightiest, who are you of flesh!' except much worse; for though God took flesh to deliver flesh from the mesh of its mighty madness, called sin, in Christ's crucifixion, yet He is by nature its author, and not its inhabitant, and has told the world in so many ways for so many days, years, millenia, what is what and what is not that the power, precision and point of His utterance CANNOT be ignored without starvation diet for both the excuse for doing so, and the one who in pompous self-glorying DARED so to defy the living God!
Nothing is of course just what Paul Davies at one stage at least liked to make the source, and that is almost a literal fulfilment! Nothing is the dynamic, nothing is the due, nothing is the attestation of these 'gods' of evolution, secularism and cultural mandates, which like to appear like southern lights in the sky, full of awe but empty of adequate illumination, a show which has no go.
A universe into a universe goes once, but a universe from nothing does not go at all. Dynamising what shrieks its protests, moreover, at such manhandling, in order to make it achieve what it quite simply is NEVER seen to do, has NEVER shown itself to possess in power, method or principle, in equipment or in process, is simply presumption personified.
It is time that its starvation diet, feeding a stomach that is not there, were made more evident. There is simply no argument that can begin to stand, all totter: the talk is all air, not even hot, being cold with the ludicrous downfall of the human mind into asininity beyond all belief, while 'science' is humiliated by this philosophic intrusion from arrogant erraticism, so that it is indeed 'science falsely so-called', as one component of the more adequate definition from Timothy 'knowledge falsely so-called'. Despite the clamour of some, whoever on earth imagined that science is not one form of knowledge, so that 'knowledge falsely so-called' would not include it!
As to 'science', it has from early Greek days been precisely that fatuous combination of observation (in part) and philosophy (in the main) which it now is in the establishment, IN THESE METAPHYSICAL AREAS in the contemporary scene.
This error is of course not the pit of all scientists, or all Ph.D. recipients in this field, not by any means, since many realise the folly of OTHER scientists, and by their hundreds hold to biblical creation, and far more scientists of course, to creation itself. It is however that false and foolish abuse of scientific method which this philosophic outrage has perpetrated for some generations now, that constitutes the contribution of the main matrix of modern 'science' to the entire knowledge situation of which it forms one cultural segment, so that this and the rest of culturally domineering human 'knowledge', in delirious combination are giving just what Paul warned Timothy to avoid, which is 'science falsely so-called' as part of 'knowledge falsely so-called'.
To be sure, it is not ONLY what we now call the 'science' element that is in view; but equally surely, it is by no means exclusive of it. The abuse of scientific method, as now defined, is quite as bad as that of the Greek philosophers of their early history (cf. Spiritual Refreshings Ch. 13). That sodden contribution of the 'classic' times of Greece with its atomic theory and the rest, mixed with doses of philosophy of an arrogant indifference to truth, is precisely what has now come of age. To ignore or to seek to subvert the apostolic warning is no service to God! It is alas, however well-intentioned, a work of confusion.
It is the TYPE of knowledge of man which is warned against, WHATEVER its contemporary modes, that fusion of confusion with observation which inherits the cultural collapse of faith into fiction, with the pomp and ceremony of ludicrous aspiration towards learning, a learning always active and never prepared to tolerate truth (Romans 1:17ff., II Timothy 3:7, 4:4, Jeremiah 2:19,27-28, I Timothy 6:20, II Thessalonians 2:10-11, cf. Wake Up World ... Ch. 6, TMR Ch. 1).
The Bible has precisely orientated to this state of things, both as inveterate and to be cumulative or culminating as the Age ends; and it is by no means the case that those caught in this current of force and fiction, are either aware of what they are doing or intentionally subverted. It is as with other drugs, a humbling and a warning altogether, to realise that there are domains into which one may come, and no more know what one is doing. From this, may the good Lord deliver His people!
In each part of the Age, what is ignorant clamours from the oil slicks of iridescent imagination, to be included in the going concerns of disfaith (q.v.) of its day, to occupy the minds of the prestigious and be taught to the eager spirits of the young victims. It is these who are seized in spirit and seduced in mind. So do these segments of time issue their pollutions.
Ours is but one of these virtueless voracities, repetitive in rebellion and reeking with irrationalities, disadorning the various epochs. A failure to realise due historical perspective and actual modes in what is deemed science, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS DOMAIN of deity, design, nature and directed power, is biblically defined to be false. It moves flimsily and flirtatiously, in company with all the nature gods of all seasons (cf. Jeremiah 10:11). Indeed, whether wrought millenia ago by some, or in this our day by a whole multitude - but not all - of the scientific establishment, this presumptuous practice of setting the images of imagination above the observation of act and fact, power and equipment, is adornment neither to factuality nor to science.
You have been warned.
Naturalism needs no escape hatches, from this or anything else. It is doomed. It is mere cultural invention, contrary to observation, sequence of scientific method, intruding 'hope' for what is witnessed, and secular or pseudo- 'religion' for reality, while the biblical depictions remain immovable after these millenia: just that PRECISE and SCIENTIFICALLY APT statement which nothing can contradict; and even when 'nothing' tries to do so, as in the Davies' depiction noted, there is nothing that nothing can say.
If Australia should elect to have, and so elect an atheist leader, then this is the way to afflict the relationship of this falling nation to the Lord, yet more. Then,
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not only would you
have the case of an RC school in Sydney, cited by the SA Government, as teaching evolutionism so that the children would not get a cultural shock when they left (reminding one somewhat in principle, of teaching the use of harlots so that people should not get a cultural shock if they felt later they wanted one, a gross failure in leadership and faith), |
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and a vast array
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but then this further snapping of the fingers in the very face of God. |
In fact, even someone addicted to a naturalistic 'church', long seduced from the Bible to its vain d reams as if Jeremiah 23, Acts 20 and Timothy had never been written, this could serve evil quite as well, since then many of the bemused and befuddled, forgetful of the faith and invaded already by the cloying decompositions of errant culture, could be taken in tow by ingratiating worldliness and various rewards to the conformists.
To be sure, as to God Himself, the omission of His word and its wisdom to so vast an extent already in many affairs of State is a declination in both senses from the way, as when the idols such as Israel loved devoured her, debauched her power and grieved the Lord. Once more the modern forgings from that prototype lead once more astray, this time pulsating with illicit power in the Gentiles; and the omission of the facts as coercive beyond desire becomes a short-circuit of truth (cf. SMR pp. 140ff.).
Such movements are vile; yet to effect alliance, to the point of leadership, with the denial of the Institutor and Creator, in secular and religious domains in unrighteous wedlock, this would be an affront most direct. It would resemble efforts to remove from the house, the wiring itself!
Let us hope that Australia can avoid both idolatry and atheism in its leadership; but if it does not, then it is only following the leadership of so many who for so long have been allowed first more privately, then with subversive propaganda, to lead astray without taking the tags. If such a nation as this is to become the forlorn relic of the power which made it and the principles with which it was instituted, yes and go further in a new Constitution omitting this time the Almighty, as it may given such leadership, secular or synthetically 'spiritual' and naturalistic, then one could weep for its folly and raise lamentation as when they call the names of the heroic dead, with bugle for each. These, they are principles beyond politics.
Yet there is also and always ground for rejoicing, for even if one's own nation in such ways so mocks God, and were to aggravate the mockery, there is always the crop that is taken, year by year, of those to be stored in the granaries of heaven, when the reaping comes at the end, and all go, each one, to the appointed place which mirrors the mind and reflects the heart's desire.
If it is not to be desired, that is both the trick and the lure of sin.
There follows then, and for many reasons but above all for the glory of God and the testimony of truth, Jesus Christ, a collection of different parts from among our 82 volume library on Biblical Christian Apologetics and matters pertaining to this, which put together, increase the ease both for comparison and for development of understanding in this area. The writings concerned, in their published form, have spanned a period of some 11 years.
Revision or enlargement relative to the originals, may occur as our present purpose suggests, in any of the items below.
With the passing of time, it has been found that the two volumes have had to become four as years passed and materials grew. It is one of the features of this work that various orientation aspects are used, that materials are deployed in different regions and aggregations, to create now this, now that facet view, overview, or inspection within of the whole crystal of creation to the point. Thus the at first overwhelming size may become more and more a matter of increasing familiarity, as when an orchestra plays different symphonies from the same composer, and finds elements in common.
The total contents are near to 600,000 words or around 14,000 pages.
As an update: Easter 2008,
two things may be noted.
First, a new encompassment with a kindred but
distinctive emphasis has now been formed.
It is called
DEITY and DESIGN, DESIGNATION and DESTINY,
a work now of some 2.7 million words.
The latest volume after that, is
OF THE WORDS OF GOD
TO MAN IN THE WORLD
The Saying
to the Straying,
the Bible to the Braying and
the Truth for its Lovers.
This has much in the area of the current tetrad, The gods of naturalism ... and some of its chapters are incorporated in Deity and Design...
Further, a set of volumes of
verification, validation and overall perspective in schematised phases is
presented in the exceedingly detailed work,
Light
Dwells with the Lord's Christ.
Thus the theological set, IN PRAISE OF CHRIST JESUS, of which both this volume and the ones just cited are parts, has steadily been growing, and it now approximates more than 20 million words and 50,000 pages and has 144 volumes. It is rather like the wind: when the Lord stirs one up to write, what can one do but follow Him! It is His affair, but may the service bring blessing to many and glory to His name, which in Jesus Christ, is infinitely due to it.
His is strength and majesty, eternity of which He is King, His is eternal life which donated to His people brings meaning, depth, beauty, holiness and wonder to all who find Him, from whom there is no cutting off;
and it is He
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who to hoar hairs carries His people as they age, |
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who for those who
wait upon brings power and peace, lilting and lifting them up in spirit, resourcing their hearts, so that they may rise up as eagles, soaring and not flitting, run and not be weary, walk and not faint. |
Thank God for His glory and the work of love, always faithful, in discipline and in doctrine, in truth and in refreshing, for the truth which He is and the everlasting tenderness of His love beyond the tempest which Calvary stilled, on which the resurrection of the body of Christ, smiled in amplitude of grace and majesty of power.
CONTENTS
Naturalism - its gods have no go,
best tell them - Begone!
VOLUME I
Naturally They Don't Go
Chapter 1 LAUGHING STOCK THERAPY
Earth Spasm ... Ch. 1See also the Witness of the Worm for the
Ironies of Little Things together with big principles
(Stepping out for Christ Ch. 10). This also relates to Ch. 5 below.
Chapter 2 FOLLY LACKS NEARLY ALL, BUT NOT MOUTH
(from part of SMR Ch. 1)
Chapter 3 NO CRUTCHES CAN AID IRRATIONALITY
Sparkling Life... Ch. 8
Chapter 4 ARITHMETICAL, GEOMETRICAL
AND MEANING MATTERS WITH MAN
Overflight in Christ Ch. 4 cf. Ch. 14 below, Great Execrations 6,
which gives with Defining Drama 10 in Ch. 21 below, a large-scale synthesis
of harmonies divine, amidst disharmonies of illusion.
Chapter 5 ANTI-SCIENTIFIC AVERSIONS OF SCIENCE FALSELY SO-CALLED
and the Total Thumbs down of Scientific Method:
The Internal Discreditation
Secular Myths and Sacred Truth Ch. 7 (see also Index).
See Appendix II below.
Chapter 6 NEW VIEWING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CORPSE OF NATURALISM
News 94Evidence and Reality ... Ch. 5
Chapter 7 THE WAY IT GOES IS NOT THE WAY IT COMES
Wake Up World! Your Creator is Coming ... Ch. 5
and see Spiritual Refreshings Ch. 5
Chapter 8 CREATION
That Magnificent Rock Ch. 1WORRIES, HURRIES, FLURRIES, SCURRIES AND REALITY
Wake Up World! Your Creator is Coming ... Ch. 6
Chapter 10 THE ORGAN OF SIGHT AND OF UNDERSTANDING
A Spiritual Potpourri Ch. 9
VOLUME 2
Necessarily They Don't Go!
Chapter 11 GRADE A AND GRADE F SCHOOLS
A Spiritual Potpourri Chs. 1-3
Chapter 12 UNQUALIFIED MACHINISTS' MIASMA
Calibrating Myths, Machining Dreams and Keeping Faith Ch. 6
Chapter 13 MOSAICS OF FIELDS
Little Things Ch. 10
(contrasted with supernaturalism, and dynamised into history)See also Red Heart ... Chs. 4 - 5, which form part of this volume
Chapter 14 IN MEMORIAM, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL
Great Execrations ... Ch. 6
Chapter 15 THE CRUCIFIXION OF LOGIC
Repent or Perish Ch. 7
Chapter 16 THE TWISTING TORQUE OF MERE TALK
MODELS AND MARVELS
That Magnificent Rock, Ch. 7
See also Stepping Out for Christ Ch. 9
Chapter 17 FITS DON'T START, and FEVERS ARE NOTHING STARTLING
Spiritual Refreshings Ch. 13
Chapter 18 FREE AMONG THE DEAD: NECROSIS OF NATURALISM
Secular Myths and Sacred Truth Ch. 8With this, see ...
THE GENERATION OF THE DISPOSSESSED
(Appendix I, Barbs, Arrows and Balms)
VOLUME III
Nothing Doesn't Go!
Chapter 19 TRUTH IS EMBRACIVE
The Glow of Predestination Ch. 7
Chapter 20 THE PEACOCK'S TALE AND THE DREAM OF DAPHNE
A Tale of Two Pities, Man's Obscurantism
and his Lustreless Loss
One Joy - God's Onrush of Glory and MercyEarth Spasm, Conscience Chasm: and Renewal of Life Ch. 7
Chapter 21 THE SHRIEKING SYNDROME OF DEVIOUS NATURALISM
Delusive Drift or Divine Dynamic Ch. 3
Consult also the same volumeDefining Drama Ch. 10 - a synthetic coverage -
with Secular Myths and Sacred Truth Ch. 3
on Post-Naturalismwhich form part of this collection.
FETTERING FREE SPEECH
THE UNANGELIC ANGLE ON THE AXES
Secular Myths and Sacred Truth Ch. 6
Chapter 23 PRINCIPLES ADRIFT IN A SEA OF CONFUSION
News 57
Chapter 24 DIVINE DYNAMIC, DISPOSITION AND DISCRETION
and JudgmentAncient Words, Modern Events Ch. 9
Chapter 25 DEPOSIT, DEVELOPMENT, DESTINY
Growing up is far more extensive than often realised
Christ, the Cumulative and the Culmination Ch. 8
Chapter 26 WHERE THE GLORY LIES, AND IS TRUE
Moving to where the logic is, we find verification, validation and both in uniqueness.
News 82, News 122,
What is the Chaff to the Wheat ? Ch.3, Ch. 4
Swiftness Ch. 6, included in the Volume, Swiftwitness and not in this one,
is also relevant in this dimension.
APPENDIX Appendix on Faith and Love
APPENDIX II Scientific Method
Slain, it refuses to lie unstirring; and
indeed, refuses to lie.
This is correlative to presentation in Chs. 3 and 5 above.
It includesCascade ... Ch. 3.
Volume 4 WHAT GOD SAYS, GOES:
CREATION IS FINISHED, BUT GOD REMAINS
For Preface to this Volume click here.
DESIGNATING DESIGNS
Oracles of Obfuscation and Clarity of Sight
History, Review, Overview, Helps, Hindrances and Holiness Ch. 4
SCRAMBLING TO AVOID BOMBARDMENT BY TRUTH IS TOO LATE!
AS IN THE FAMOUS ISRAELI BOMBING OF THE EGYPTIAN AIR FORCE,
ABOUT TO INVADEThis relates to the historical foibles of evolutionism, with reference
to the prodigious nullity to the point, of 'finds', providing overview of aspects
of confusion and constraint, It includes a comparison of formulations of design.Pride of Life ... Ch. 5
Rationality Dies without Design
'Mother Nature', The God of Creation and the gods of defamation
THE ERA OF DELUSION
Dreams defile, truth awakes, and imagination may be used to distil thought from confusion.
History, Review, Overview, Helps, Hindrances and Holiness Ch. 5,
MARKETING MARVELS OF DELUSION AND SURVEYING FORCE IN ITS FRENZIES
Bonvoyage Ch. 1
This relates to the theme of this work,
both in review and with imagery,
with special emphasis on different aspects of history in the broader sense,
including Marx and Tolstoy.
NONE TOO FASTIDIOUS WHEN THE FACTOTUM FUNCTIONS
This provides in an eschatological drama, a sense of the atmospherics of oppression by the dogmas of blind evolutionism, when Authority mandates and its mantras are in high demand ... or else! This is part of a novel, and so gives a sense of looking on as well as looking in.
Little Angel Ch. 8
GENES AND GENIUS, PARADIGMS, PARAGENES AND PARAPEOPLE
This is a chapter showing that you cannot escape from truth by twiddling the dials, for the requirements are absolute, and the orchestra without conductor, composer or manuscript plays havoc.
Gratitude for His Glorious Grace, No. 4 and
SEEING THE ENTIRE PRODIGIOUS DEPLOYMENT IN ITS SCOPE,
PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, MORAL: AND TAKING HEED AS WELL AS HEARTGratitude for His Glorious Grace Ch. 8,
These last two chapters are relating to grace for the race, and the differentiation of its different aspects in its created whole, as time develops.
Involved are matters of more recent history in the melt-down proceeding
for much of the human race: its due, it's true, but a ghastly sight,
to be avoided by truth.
Appendix to Volume 4
Here three chapters written since the compilation of The gods of naturalism have no go!, are added in 2007. The first two involve allegory to the point, and then dialogue concerning it! The third sees sovereignty and creativity is a blessed bond of empirical and revelatory testimony, coherent, verificatory as always in all domains, of the presence, power and procedures of God, and their correlative creaturely correlatives in man.
The Nano-Particle was So Particular!
The Delightful Declamation: the Magnificence of Pure Mercy
The Plastic and the Key
The Lavish Luxury of Creative Thought
Creative Exemplars and Creation:
Love's Gift and Life's Lord