Chapter 39
This Chapter
is from Evidence and Reality,
The Prince and the Proof, Constant Christian Faith
and the Fickle Frenzy of Force
Chs. 2, 5, 6, 7 .
As this would constitute a large
file, it seems best to leave the access to these chapters as above, and simply
to characterise the contribution they make, at this point.
There is here
much concentration on scientific method, its proprieties, contribution, abuse
and limitations, on logic and its more comprehensive contribution allowing
demonstration that the word of God is just that, on spirit and its nature and
evidence and its correlation in a trilogy of testimony from mind, matter and
spirit which not only conjoin in their operational functionalities and
felicities, but adjoin their Creator God, whose has given not alone their
specific and specialised domains and cosmoi, but read these into them in
collaborative commission.
With these go
very well the earlier Chapters:
Dig Deeper, Higher Soar, Divine Glory
Delights the More Ch. 1 (dealing with elements of astronomy in a
cosmic setting), Ch. 2
(of very broad coverage, including some rigorous treatment of definitional
aspects of design); Lively Lessons ...
Ch. 5, specialising in astronomical
themes (October 2009 addition); and
The Majestic
Might of the Merciful Messiah Ch. 6, where there is
an angelic conversation imagined, aiding perspective beyond the smog of contrary
coalescings of concepts and empty arguments. .
The coverage of
all such issues in Deity and Design
..., a work of around 2.7 millions words, is rather comprehensive, but this
current Volume 5 of The gods of naturalism have no 'go'! includes later works,
and is a good additive.
Chapter 40 ... this and the Chapters 41-49
are as presented below, and hence have no hyperlinks.
Mini-Messages with Maxi-Point
for the Call of Christ
Ch. 2,
Ch. 6,
Happy Hitches and Holy Healings,
Godless Glitches and Divine Dealings
Ch. 2,
Evidence and Reality ...Ch.
3,
The Holocaust of Morality
...
Ch. 3
December 2008,
On the DNA
aspect, all the above except Mini-Messages ... Ch. 2 speak, extending the
applications or placing them in varied perspectives. There is also a combination
of considerations at many levels in these chapters.
As to the DNA, it
needs to be realised clearly that when you have information about information, a
dictionary, phrase book or semantic aid, as it were for use with words to
secure their due apprehension so that the apt results might accrue from each
word, in fact a symbol, in the coded section, you have a double-system. The
uncoded DNA, itself a huge section of the whole, is now being seen to have
huge meta-conditions for the commands of coded DNA, and with this meta-material,
the information, the commands themselves, there are double and correlative
systematics, which deserve thought.
Thus if a dictionary to give the
equivalent of meanings, syntax or the like, is needed as reference point for the
interpretation or construction of commands, the combination of code and code
about code in two separable elements of the system, one ministering to the
other, then there is a tableau, a collateral, like legal documents and land,
each apposite. The combination however has to have contextual collation to have
meaning.
This means that the build-up,
imaginary and contra-evidential as it is, of any ONE system is valueless UNLESS
it is accompanied by the other system already OPERATIONAL with felicity, so that
ANYTHING in the parallel system may be secured in effect, and made meaningful,
rather than mumbling about nothing signified.
To have a dictionary on the one
hand, fully operational, and a command, on the other, to be acutely and reliably
interpreted and disposed, so that each new command imagined to be falling from
heaven or any other place, is gifted with this meta-master provision, to add to
its own felicity with symbols, so that each may accomplish with distinction just
what it is coded to do, surpasses the normal abandonment of experimental reality
for magic.
This is like a drugged
consciousness, relentless with a drunken sardonism, as when drunks become
obstinate and self-assured: it becomes a matter imagining dictionary and
language, the one to tell and the other to be told, each in the same mode, with
the same type of language coding concepts and super-concepts implicit as
building constraints. Moreover the telling about the mode and meaning of telling
as well as the telling what to do, both these have to be recopied with each new
birth of nucleated cells.
Here is not only the motion to make
magic king, but nonsense LORD. A sound system in the same milieu as a similarly
sound system being built in terms of that milieu, so that the second requires
the first, and both require highly workable results, is a dealing with
systematics as the actual, perceptible topic. When therefore non-systematics as
the assumed and imagined topic, is made to appear even slightly relevant, this
becomes a work of contrariety so vast as to bring the smile. Here is the
pandemonium of obstinate philosophy at work, irrelevant. It simply does not
relate.
Here are not 'bits' (concerning the
philosophy of which, see Ch. 47 below), but systems in alliance, conceptual
uniformity in liaison, and the one to be reliable before the other can operate.
We have now books being written for rules, and rules by books, and the master
concept is RULES and COMMANDS, the two joined, which for such co-operation
becomes the synthesis of semantics and command. ALL of this is in the field of
mind, nothing in the least to do with materially investigable realities. To get
a dictionary and start relating to it as you go, or a correct usage for codes
compilation, and to go in this phase, it is all a work of purpose, of reason, of
application and of constraint over all.
A mind is necessarily at work, and
whatever man may be minded to do with his own mind, mindlessness is not really a
bright idea for the concept of the cause of this phenomenon, any more than it is
for the vastly MORE complex mind of man, let alone his spirit, the whole domain
of which is understanding, meaning, will, perspective, oversight, overview,
thrust with ideas and connotation and operation in terms of comprehension allied
to apprehension and desire. That in its own turn, relates to design, what man
seeks, and the view taken of what is to be obtained, whether for love or hatred
or anything else IN THIS DOMAIN.
Man is not enabled to make designs,
both in purpose and in various matrices, because he is not one, but rather
because not only is his set-up a design, but a meta-design, which can designate
designs, imagine and invent them, by man's mind and spirit: all with a
magnificent facility as one moving in a domain wholly set up, fully operational
with the components of intellection, inspection, innovation, imagination and
purpose all coherently present. To effect designs, these qualities and powers
given man are MAKING the composition workable. Imagined means are used in
connection with those actually available. The results is thus contrived.
Such glorious workability in domains
beyond a given realm, such astounding brilliance in what is posited causally as
the non-mental, it is an attribution like that of a corrupt politician,
carefully giving to a groomed relative, corruptly. It is in this case a position
about which the candidate not only knows nothing, but where he does not even
possess the type of intellection required. He is outside his field altogether.
Domain indifference is only one of
the leeches which destroys man's reductionist models (cf. Repent or Perish
Ch. 7, Glory, Vainglory and
Goodness Ch. 1). It is rather
like a fashion parade in which the various models are, by an oversight, all
scare-crows; and what scary scare-crows these are! Each one says to the other,
Oh, I say (Darwin was British), you DO look a fright.... except of
course that speech is their problem, these materialist fops who wave, and wander
without mind, code experts, dropped by fantasy into the inferno of loose ideas.
Chapter 41
Bewilderment, Bedazzlement, Bedevilment
or the Beauty of Christ's Holiness
Ch. 3,
Ch. 6
August 2008
Causes, Kinds, Components,
Expositions and Impositions in creation: the necessity of regarding what is
there, not being airy-fairy about things, as if a divorced spouse were to
accuse the former mate of being scarcely human, a mere stand with dresses on,
hypnotised by convention and so forth. It is not really relevant to stampede
with words: you DO need to face facts, and in the face of it, creation is not
really given to the simplistic, the reductionist or the bedeviled. It has a
vast hinterland of principles, powers and functions, with a provision
for determination BY man which is not less because it is so frequently
ill-used. In view of his moral and aesthetic, spiritual and moral capacities,
it is truly remarkable, like a ruined horse, how he increasingly shows himself
degraded almost past recognition.
That however is precisely the
Bible's speech concerning this design. called man, who having the powers to
design and designate to a point, tries to turn the point into a plateau.
Humility is not just a moral criterion; it is essential for man; and it
includes a willingness to be instructed by the Instructor who caused it all.
These Chapters jointly also
include the concept of a REALITY CHECK, and check-mates irrelevant assault on
spiritual life, while showing the need of that very divinely dowered vitality,
as something not casual for the spiritual aesthete, but necessary for the
human race.
There is also the crucial concept
of META-DESIGN with man in view, raised in a
dialogue situation, exhibiting the nature of God, of man and of liberty, the
impact of love and removing confusions so that the wonder of the Designer, the
Meta-Designer might be clear apart from the elaborate confusions which some
have lingering in their midst, like those who are never free of the croup, the
fevers, the inflammations and the infections of pathologies innumerable, like
those staggering in daze amid the haze, dim within and walking as in a dream
(cf. Jeremiah 23). Alas for man, such is more than possible, and nothing makes
it impermissible but divine deliverance.
Chapter 42
The Holocaust of Morality and the Coming of Christ the King
Ch.
2. October 2008
Here we have the fascinating
concept, biblically derived, of DE-CONSTRUCTION, used as an index for what is
required in construction.
Ch. 3 of The Holocaust ... appears in our Ch. 40 above.
Chapter 43
The
Secular, the Sacred and the Sublime
Ch. 4,
Ch.
5, Ch. 6
November 2008
Let us take each of these
Chapters, noted above, in turn.
Chapter 4 removes the hiding
places of unreason when we face the concept of meaning and the
intra-systematic necessities which in their domain, are prelude to power.
Chapter 5 defines its interest as
follows:
When regarding all that is before
us, in ourselves, our world and its universe, we have considered in
Ch. 4 some of the implications
founded on empirical reality and logical method, with scientific modes in
view. Now let us go into the internals of living things a little more, for a
little forgetful of outside implications, merely surveying the depths, like
one who having been an astronaut, decides for an excursion, to investigate the
depths, relatively small though they be. We shall start with a visit to
conceptual realism.
Chapter 6 has a somewhat
comprehensive approach to variety in creation. The following excerpt gives an
initial indication.
There is the bat with its
sophistication of apparatus and its mosquito quenching powers a marvel,
diligent in small things and making a difference by agility in the air and
disregard of the apparently impossible, while careless of its appearance, and
not easy for co-operation.
At the other end of the scale,
there is the whale with its gentle play and hard times with the octopus, an
harassed giant, the porpoise with its intelligence and glorious agility, the
snake with its abased hiddenness ready to abase what is lofty, the scorpion with
its fixtures of disfavour, ready to inflict harm as a vocation, the white ant
with its devastating persistence out of sight: and all these things have a
message.
Within their panoramas of
performance, there is now mockery of man's strutting, exposure of his
deviousness, expression of his loftiness, derogation of his sloth, his greed,
his cunning, his unillustrious devastations and massed group powers to inflict
evil.
Now there is admiration for
diligent industry, abhorrence of the disgustingly abased and abasing, laughter
at grossness. Parodies of the great, are linked with elevation of the lowly;
parades of the gifted come with animated versions of the feckless and the
foolish, the predatory and the soulless. There is depiction of the diligently
constructive and the recklessly destructive, the lazy, the inert, the callow,
the cunning, the inherently dangerous and the merely negative.
Questions of direction,
protection, motivation, elevation, the meaning of attainment and the means for
it, are all given the forms of drama and the format of seasoned players, like
those of some Shakespearian panoramic pageant, appareled to convince the
watchful, instruct the ignorant and rebuke the mighty, with poems of tragedy and
indifference, casualness and application.
These are scattered like seed for
a vast and varied garden, to make a testimony not to be forgotten. If creation
with its wit, wisdom, flights of wonder and glorious aesthetics, intense variety
and vast dedication to kind with sub-varieties of the specific thrown in like so
many evening gowns, fur coats, summer shirts and warm underwear all in so many
drawers, each in different sites in the wardrobe, is on the one hand a pageant
of wonder, a display of magnificence, an investment in wisdom, a paradigm of
utter brilliance of method and fascinating accomplishment in myriads of results,
an odyssey of invention and a flourish of technicalities beyond man as the sky
beyond the earth for height; yet on the other, it is a display page for
advertising to the wise, the follies of flesh, the misconceptions of mere speed
or power, the dangers to life as sophisticated as misled, of passion in its
persistence, as sudden for the unwary as death by adder.
Chapter 44
The Kingdoms of This World and the Kingdom of
Christ
Chs.
8
and 9.
March 2009
Here we deal with scientific
method in its applications, contrasting scientific method and scientistic
method. In Ch. 9, we perceive and investigate the metaphysical pre-occupations
of Dawkins with his meta-myths of his own invention or contention, and expose his irrational conundrums, inaccurate allegations and
inadequate formulations in the field of religion, and not by any means there
alone. There is a syndrome which in general comes to afflict man, of whatever
intellect, like paralysis in the young, and the results speak for themselves.
There is a cure.
Chapter 45
Spiritual Food and Spiritual Drink
Chs. 1, 2, 3 Epilogue, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
May 2009
A major feature in this series
of wide range is the LOGOS (cf. Ch. 4
and Epilogue). Thus man is not only equipped with logic in his own
mind, with its internal and external self-verifications, but the universe which
he investigates responds acutely, sensitively and continually to its exercise,
all being the work of one LOGOS, a directive, communicative, institutive,
code-writing, spirit-moulding Being whose expressions are without exception; and
while man may mar the work by his clashing use of imagination, this does nothing
to limit or demolish the actualities which such erroneous and unverified
theories merely ignore.
Man neither invents the logos, but
rather is invented by it, nor makes it work, but applies principles derived from
it; and while he can utilise its exploits in the universe, by interpreting its
works there, which the universe itself is never seen to create, merely to
exhibit (like a car running rather than a car being made), he himself, conscious
and analytical even of these things as he is, can no more institute it than
institute the universe.
Each is the work of one LOGOS which
institutes in man what it constitutes in the universe, and having made the chief
things in man invisible, his courage or obstinacy, his love of beauty (which is
far from BEING beauty) or his intensive rigour, his peace or militancy, it is as
distinct from man and the universe as is any dower-power from what it endues
(cf. Ch. 47, two below this one).
The constraints of the visible are
inapplicable, and the codes it invents are underivable, being the expressions of
His thoughts (for thoughts without mind are events without cause, detachable
flummeries of fiction), whose wisdom invents not only codes but in man,
codifiers, the Creator creating the creative and the creative in turn USING the
principles deployed by the Logos the institute things sound or unsound,
depending on the degree of his interference, knowledgeable and proud or weak and
careless, with the enduement he possesses. Yet it continues, like a builder,
whatever is done to the house he made; and man continues to need what he so
often slights, the One who gave him sight both of logic and of himself.
As to the Logos itself, it is at
initial regard, sui generis; but as to that, it is not a 'genus' at
all; for there is none like it. It is as God says, thus represented,
"I am that which I am". This certifies and signifies an existence
independent of all creation, of constraint, all coded control, all delimitation,
free of anything and of all, neither gripped by invasive passions nor by any
other feature from without, for all outside is His creation, whether it runs
amiss in terms of misused will or ambition, or is gracious and godly, liberty
itself the profundity of His wit and love the enormity of His heart.
Only this accounts for the results
which man and the universe constitute; only His eternity avoids the problem of
'all is nothing' at any time, which would mean all always nothing; but we are
not nothing. All efforts to annul the validity of reason annul the arguments
which use the concept, for if it were true, then the argument is invalid, and if
it be false, then that is its end. All efforts to conceive of Him as demented,
an ogre or idiot who makes things which suffer interminably through evil intent,
makes Him lacking in something, and hence a mere creature, his constitution
surging to look for what it is by nature ... missing. Such anthropomorphisms or
more accurately, model-annulments, are mere self-contradictions. It is His to
give, needing nothing psychically or in any other way, and ours to receive.
Nothing lacks in His provisions, for
incompetence is merely a deficiency relative to performance; and the word of God
is readily found, the LOGOS self-descriptive and prescriptive for man in his
conscious deployments, for there is nothing else verifiable and validatable on
all fronts. It is relatively easy to find what has the wisdom of infinitude, the
accuracy of truth over time and the non-revisionism of knowledge over the
millenia (cf.
DEITY AND DESIGN, DESIGNATION AND
DESTINY,
especially Section 8;
LIGHT DWELLS WITH THE LORD'S CHRIST, Who Answers Riddles and Where He is,
Darkness Departs).
In this lies the Gospel, and there
lies the responsibility of man; for man is not an engaging fellow finding out
what he may from a reluctant or evil universe, but a defiant maestro, with
illusions of grandeur when not dabbling in defeat, depression or wander-lust,
and it is his own rebellion against truth, logic and the Lord, from whom all
comes, that is the ground of the demise for this world, its plan finished, which
now draws somewhat closer.
In the Word of God, the validated
Bible, there is found both the description of man, made in the image of God in
capacities for fellowship with the divine, the Maker, the Redeemer, and the
attestation of the Logos, so obvious from His works, showing moreover that it is
He who is the eternal expression, the personal expression, not a manual but
definitive image, not subordinate but intimately expressive within the infinity
of the magnificence of God.
This Chapter 45 should in this field
be taken in close connection with Ch. 47 below, itself from The
Unsearchable Riches of Jesus Christ ...
Ch. 7, which devotes extensive
treatment both in text and dedicated Note in Excursion, to these things.
Chapter 1 takes things to the
simple, the elemental.
Chapter 2 in particular deals with
common errata in considering the power of God and His ways, deleting the
derangement and so allowing focus on the necessary source of creation, without
confusion through cultural impositions.
Chapter 3 Epilogue considers an
illuminating contrast in the realm of correlation of design and power movements,
in particular considering failed man, epitomised in one recent case, in
the power-pushfulness of Ahmadinejad, on the one hand, and the
purposefulness of the love of the Saviour, on the other. It is He who
Himself, the Mark I man: Jesus Christ (Romans 5) shows the power of love in
truth, and shunned the love of power.
Such a contrast stirs thought and
requires conceptualisation of the dynamic of love and liberty, and its detailed
verification.
Chapter 4 probes further into design
and love, so that correlative considerations in results and causes, at the level
required by reason and confirmed by verificatory revelation may be seen without
the prejudice of the injudicious or the extreme, in theology, preferring the
biblical expression of its own case and concept. It is necessary in modelling to
be accurate! Laxity for WHATEVER reason is systematically irrelevant in its
findings.
Chapter 9 deals with arboreal
aesthetics and botanical metaphysics.
Chapter 11 has for its topics the
fascinating reality of TYPES, Patterns and Exuberant Multiplicity, so that the
measure of the mentality of creation surpasses the cringing littleness of
expediency or the crimping of paucity, being fitting to God as are the multitude
of the stars, of the sands, of the biological cells, of their composition in the
brain of man, the fascinating principles operative in space and the liberties
accorded to man, who has universes of his own to explore, derivative likewise
from deity, in the glorious liberty accorded to his thoughts, which he can even
test and discard, or to which cling despite obvious folly, tenaciously.
Chapter 12 has for its topic,
Decisive Creativity. In this there are multiple ingredients. Some may be
considered broadly.
It is as if you surveyed a scene and
tried to institute a criss-cross pattern in order to separate its elements into
assignable parts. This would be an intellectual exercise. Space however flows.
So do the thoughts of man. Yet you CAN find separable thoughts in the mind of
man; and you DO find separate creations of kind and content in the array of
God's fascinating creations, dower of His creativity, as He fills in now this,
now that component, arraigning now this type of creation, now that, and to man
giving the specific facility of examining both these and their variations about
a common theme, like that of a composer, with thematic renewals in a given
piece, which nevertheless is both itself, and not another, while incorporating
its delightful unity of being and differentiability from each other piece.
As noted:
"Precisely
as in human creation, but on a scale vast beyond comparison, items are made to
take this or that space of conceivable reality - and of course, though we might
be able now to conceive of it, this is very different from conceiving of it
before it came to be! It is as with stars spatially, there is space about them;
so it is with kinds of creatures biologically, there is space around them."
Chapter 13 is
the sight of the butterfly, a tableau. In this we have elements readily
perceived but needing thought and cogitation:
Does our washing stay clean in a dusty wind
? or do surgical instruments stay sterile in a crowd ? or does a painting
retain its texture when tossed about by manual labourers or hurricanes ? Does
food not rot if one fails to preserve it, and does not a cell unguarded by its
membrane, constitute an invasion site!
Do things not run down when artistries and
graces, delicacies and intricate systems, set without hardened covers, are
given time without much care ? Is not the Second Law of Thermodynamics a law
because there are no exceptions known to its stipulation ? Do not things,
without domain of diligence applied, tend to dissipate the more as they are
vulnerable the more ?
Yet here amid the rough and tumble of
weather, wind, sea, oceans, storms, pollution, earthquakes, vast earthworks
and clouds of dust, vibrant heat stirring much of the globe, intense cold
afflicting much of the rest, here prodigies of artistry and delicacy continue
to arrive and proceed to endure. When one generation is gone, another arrives,
fresh from the bakeries of confection, run by the DNA and associated
structural engineering components.
Life, it is like that.
Again:
Everything comes: that is one of the master
concepts in life. Creation comes; test comes; preservation comes; judgment
comes; salvation comes; the Gospel comes: the time to receive it comes and it
goes. Today it is still here.
So are we. Let us rejoice in the vitality of
life, the victory of His wisdom and power, purity and love over sin, and
ensure that we are participants in His provisions, already received for
physical, mental and spiritual action, but needed in a further layer for
spiritual life, to replace the marring and scarring of sin.
It is this same vitality and vigour,
unremitting capacity and splendid innocence in infinite wisdom which in God
brings forth once the myriad forms of life and their myriads of
exemplifications and productions for every season, in the first place.
That is creation.
It is He who similarly produces the
liberation from sin which obscures the truth and rebels at duty for Him; and
pays for it, and He HAS paid (Hebrews 9:12, 9:27-10:14), never to pay again
(Galatians 1).
The Track of Truth, Meadows of Mercy and
Peace of Pardon
Ch. 1,
Ch. 3
June 2009
Here in Ch. 1, the new concept of
DIAGNOSTIC SYNTHESIS is considered. It has a close relationship to
deconstruction, but in the opposite direction. In Ch. 6 the concern moves on
from what one medical scholar called CEREBRAL NUBILITY. We move to the mover of
such re-creative, re-organisation and purposively directed, programmatic
interplay. The excerpt below appetises to face the issues involved.
It concerned a woman born with what the article
calls "half a brain" and he is cited as saying that this had "rewired itself,
to work as a whole."
Yes, I do recall something about improving IQ
and moving more gracefully, through putting the brain expectantly through its
paces.
I for my part recall earlier talk by a special
student of the area to the effect that the concept of just wearing out, losing
brain cells with age, was over-stated. He was emphatic: the brain CAN
manufacture new brain cells, and requiring of it fuller function is the call:
USE the thing as you age, don't capitulate to apathy.
You once mentioned something about brain injury
I believe ?
Yes, I read of cases of injury at war, brain
injury, leading to re-organisation pretty much the way this doctor describes.
In other words, this part of the brain being damaged, certain functions were
moved to what was not their normal place, so that the work could continue. It
was amazing: not only did the brain work by means of billions of inter-related
cells, each one a triumph of DNA memory emplacement and functional capacity, a
sort of combination of a bookshop and a multi-task engineering tool, with some
mathematical brilliance imparted as well; but it could, to a certain extent
and in certain circumstances go much further and actually, actively re-organise
even sites for action, alternative ones, because of total systematic need.
In other words, not only does it have a
resource to store for the recall of millions of bits of information, but a
function to organise them with such an exquisite facility and overall
instillation by some means of total relationship to total function on the part
of elements or areas, that it can even to some extent re-arrange things. I
mean, an electrician for your house in one thing; but someone to re-organise
the wiring to enable your special needs to be met by alternative ways ...
Yes, I see your point, someone so inspired as
to be able to innovate in order to meet fixed and knowable purpose ... and
then, passing it all on, do so without personal involvement through having
installed a program for the purpose of meeting just such contingencies, this
is an avalanche of wonder.
Indeed: for it is so foolish to imagine that
passing on arrangements that condition responses on stimuli, and have the
equivalent of descriptive orders of how to meet impacts internal or external
is something less than personal. It is more than simple thought: it is thought
codified, compressed, stylised and subjected to transmission in standardised,
reactive format. It is rather like Morse code: it is not less than language in
being codified; it is in some ways more, for it requires not only the
conditions for expression and reception, but an added feature, their
subjection to a format for special use.
In Ch. 3, the action moves to the nature of
intelligence, formation, information, red herrings and fishiness in general, and
facing the issues without irrelevancies of the inchoate substitution of showers
of imagination for logical necessities. In this the concepts of demi-urge or
spectre is given attention; and there is no respect for a spectre, since you
need more than an imaginative metaphor to deal with the constraints of reason.
The matter is correlated with other reference.
Chapter 47
This Chapter is from The
Unsearchable Riches of Jesus Christ, and the Aggregating Debt of Dismissal,
Ch. 7,
July 2009
Here is an
extended investigation into all the cosmoi of man's observation, access and
combination both in practice and in mind, with the underivative character of
causation emphasised, and the derivative character of man assessed, with its
results. It includes the summit phenomena of multiplicity and exuberance in
creation and the consequences of that fact for mind, along with the pervasive
expression of the LOGOS in man's mind, in its conceptual potential as in the
penetrability of the universe in those terms, this with a new and necessary
facility when the full exercise of reason, having led to God, gives a functional
perspective for the coverage of the whole creation. It moreover prevents those
illogical, those illicit stumblings which both misuse reason, reach frustration,
and do not start where it has its own earthly source.
The excerpt below
will suffice for further introduction.
Let us look at the talents. Thus you
do not ask a child to write a mathematical thesis, or a wrestler to play the
piano in any normal range. God gives talents to man such that, if you take the
very best of them, in mathematics, physics, astronomy, physiology, and the
various disciplines, you see once more something of the sort at least of
brilliance and capacity, functionality and facility which the very workings of
our many-times self-reproducing bodies exhibit (via, to be sure, a duality of
male-female, all part of it).
Then though the greatest
functional powers of man lie far beneath the least of those evidenced in the
fabrication of creation, even the simple cell an exploit of sheer wonder, yet we
find that LOGOS, the word of God, the cause, the expression of His mind such
that in man it SHOWS ITSELF, intrinsically, in what he is made to be, and
through man, it shows itself extrinsically in his works, again, less clearly
because of sin, yet nonetheless most distinctively, in what he creates in
thought and construction*3A.
LOGOS-wrought in making, logos-taught in functioning, man is surrounded by
words as a forest by its trees. Seen from without, it is vast and rambling,
yet ordered and beautiful; seen from within, it is powerful and functional,
logic so sheer in its splendour in man that he even toys with it, discusses
it, tries to seduce it from its work by invalidating it, as if that could
amount to anything: for if a man breaks a sword, with what weapon does he
fight!
As
will be seen from the added excerpt below, the scope of The Unsearchable Riches
of Jesus Christ, and the Aggregating Debt of Dismissal are wide-ranging and
perspective that is testable and valid is applied unremittingly.
TWO GENIES, BUT NO GENIUS
So we have the same barren
artifices at work both in biology and in politics, with disastrous results, as
in the last two World Wars, paying tribute to the synthetic powers of bringing
this vain survival of the fittest idea, into containment in man-management
policies: organic evolution and communism in unholy but very convenient
wedlock, a marriage of convenience if ever there was one. What a to-do ! Subtract a few millions of tortured relics from the
earth: that is some accomplishment, some experiment! Some fantasy, some blood.
Biology and
politics, then, are two
fields of reality-evasion of enormous portent and ones which have exacting
prodigious payment from fantasisers: or rather from
their followers, such as Darwinists and the neo-contrivers who build on the
same sand with different implements, such as Marxists and the like, as placed
in China, which retains power by Marxism and makes money by free enterprise, as
if duplicity of speech were the only way to go.
These two then: the vital and the
political disciplines,
have been used to the near demise of the race, for though many remain, the
CONDITIONS in which they remain are far more suspect... now! The very earth is
beginning to share something of the fever, through dire misuse, advanced
extravagantly through preoccupation with power play and exploitation of people,
whether for profit or management, in a web of illusion which ignores the only
plan that works, that of the Creator whose it all is!
Thus we have been
distinctively afflicted by these two undisciplined but not indisciplinable
disciplines which, with
scientific method in the basement, have built titanic skyscrapers above, as if
to sink from space would hit bottom later.
It may - but with more
thud! The first is courtesy of that publiciser of the
magic of organic evolution, himself confused amidst confusion and attacking
(quite rightly) the evidential basis of his own work as inadequate, that is,
Charles Darwin; the second is per favour of his
cousin in mind, Karl Marx. In each of these developments (and there have to be many
when the thing is wrong at the commencement, as indeed it is in both
cases), scientific method suffers duress (cf. refs. above, and SMR pp.
145ff.,
931ff.), and observation is observably
in demise. Thought rules, but is unruly, being irrational. What then of Marx ?
The task for him is simple.
How to create a good State by evil means, gentle virtue by vicious virulence, a
warless peace by a profusion of wars, a world of abundance by the politics of
want, a time of liberty by the arousing of the genie of compulsion, good people
by bad means, and a world like an earthly version of the kingdom of heaven
(Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this world!"), from an assumed
systematic matrix of history, which had no liberty at all: this was his task.
It fails in thought by
simple omission of an adequate cause for the desired ( or,
biologically, the observable) result which he proceeds to manipulate, even any
observable power to coerce life-production into being even WITH intelligence;
just as it fails in producing what is beautiful and good by assailing something
amongst many things, compulsively, as if it contained all evil, rather than
being a form of abuse of freedom. So Communism fails in principle just as it
fails in history by the omission of the obtaining of it by the prescribed and
clearly irresponsibly inadequate means!
That is what irked Sir Karl
Popper in the University of London in his apt review of Marxism: it
does not happen, it is simply contra-evidential empirically (see SMR pp.
145-148,
211ff.,
266-267,
305-308,
925ff.). In addition, it is
meretricious, adventitious, suppositious and pernicious in its dehumanised,
products, both reductionistic in irrationality, and in integrity, making of man
a comic mask, bathed in tragedy.
WHAT does not happen ? NEITHER the Marxist predicted product happens, NOR
does the Darwinian one happen to happen in any way practically apparent, or
formulated with theoretical causative force: this was what Popper declared in
his massive review of the actual evidences. As to ARRIVAL, not a SINGLE organ
has been accounted for causally in the Darwinian mode, he notes (just as, in
fact, not a single one has been seen in transitional stages, or clearly
exhibits the same in retrospect). It is true Popper himself tries
(metaphysically) to get reality inventing itself by prongs of interchange and
development, potential realising itself; but all such
efforts fail at once. The GRANT of the potential in the first place is the
all-important question-begging commencement; to which one needs to add the
potential to develop the potential, and then the actualisation
of both potentials, which is merely slow-motion smuggling of the divine powers
under phrases. These, however do not provide the reality. God's words can do
this, since He has the relevant power; ours do not, since we don't.
Popper's account of the
causative force of these 'scientific' theories, then, is fine. What in sum is that ? This: They never amount to anything, never account
for anything. It is in this, an accurate review: for the simple fact is that in
each case, it does NOT happen like that, though it be watched
for, worked for, hoped for, dreamed of, for centuries. Logic is not about to capitulate, and to murder it requires its validity to be there,
in order that one may logically destroy it; so it stays, and these results do
not arrive by logic any more than by observation.
Neither in
the physical, the mental, the metaphysical, the rational, the moral nor in the
spiritual is there any room for rampant reductionism, the unravelling of reason,
the investiture of bits or the occupation of getting what is called life from a
dead heart with a dispelled dynamic, an impelling escapism or a listless
relationship to the Lord. God keeps faith with the faithful. Abutments into hell
before their time are not only untimely, but pregnant with what to the
wandering, seems to be 'fate' (cf. Psalm 1).
It is GOD
who is faithful; man may have faith or fate. As to the latter, it is not
impersonal, but the sure consequence of avoiding mercy, which twinned with
impervious fact, is treated by billions with contempt. The milling that results
is not unfortunate; it is procured! The remedy is not possible: it is assured.
It is Jesus Christ, Redeemer from the implosions of erratic thrusts and
rebellious indifference alike.
Ignore this
the way you would, if in an aircraft, 30 feet above ground, you saw a red light
in a well-known part of your instrumentation, flashing and firing.
Chapter 48
This is taken from
WAITING FOR WONDER -
APPENDIX
This proceeds from information and
its nature, to meta-information, genetic construction and constriction, and
decline, and scientific material on this point. It traces causation to its
various levels and leaves the realm with the necessities of creation revelling
in their sheer exuberance and mastery, and the swooning crush of
avoidance-ism - that compulsive seeming rush from reality - to its own
inglorious devices.
Chapter 49
The Barbaric Symphony of Bits
Dealing with Dissonance
The Roll-Call for Rebels
The Mock Grandeur of Dissociation
Elements of the Course for the Bachelor of
Bits
January 2010
In this Chapter we
concentrate on the concentration camp for bits, particles, ideas in isolation,
material and spiritual isolationism, in which one mind in oneness seeks to
imagine a universe of bits, joined in the contemplative mind of man, assumed in
system, managed in contradictory coherence, equipped with consequences, devoid
of cause, used in systems of abortive thought, while abused in scattering,
symptoms of rebellions, items of irrationality, part of the syndrome of
insufficiency, by which marred modern man tries to live. Cloistered in his own
imagination, he finds nothing for support but hope, in a pretentious and
factitious fealty to the science of nothing, which has nothing to do with
science, just as nothing itself has nothing to do with anything.
In this field, man as
creator tries to build creation in his mind in bits, disposing of his own
invention as inventor, as if it were the dream, while dreaming up a creation
which creates itself, available to his own mighty power, dunce of dust,
vaunting with the spirit given him, his delusions with the dynamic of
propaganda, with never one fact, always swelling with antinomies, never
substantiating in action.
Inventing from nowhere,
the logical stage for thought, the rationality indices for its discipline, he
spreads out not in laboratory but in the labours of illicit thought, in
consistent inconsistency making creation the spawn of no cause. Begging each
question, and assembling from nowhere all he desires, unbelieving man cannot
even organise the congestion of unattested pretension, himself lord of action
while he is born and dies, unable to dispense with birth or death. While
disposing these things in empty thought, feckless creator by presumption, he is
dispensing with them in action, composing a lurid morass of lordly imaginations
divorced from the empirical, dead to reason, constituting the course for
Bachelor of Bits.
It has many students. The fee is
your life.
In this way, imagination is the
builder of creation, but the buildings it proposes are never found arriving in
the realms of life which it disposes. They are not found incomplete, on the way,
but always apt in the light of common day. These it disposes, in the emptiness
of vacuous thought, while denying constructive thought for their composition.
Consequently nothing works, all verification collapses, nothing is ever
demonstrable, excuse is the exercise, confusion is the content.
The dynamics of this belief
concerning spontaneous creation of the universe are often found in the mind,
while never found in the resultant. It is this which remains, this and not
man's fetid imagination; it is this which is the bearer of the testimony of
effectual action, the indelible stamp of strength from their causatively
ineluctable Creator. Here is the base for all rational and practical belief, the
truth which the relative cannot create, even for thought, without which it can
not even lay valid claim, but morbid with mortality, lies a pretender for ever.
His and not man's is not only the stamp of logical sequence and validity, but
the dynamic drive whereby the effectual imagination has its power to dower,
its product ourselves. Made in ways never now seen, from the era of divine
creation, many blindly squander their spiritual inheritance, mad about
bits, bits from nowhere, caused by nothing, adept at interaction in systems
product of the void, itself a creation of thought, denied by definition anything
for anything.
By contrast, It is the eternal
God who is the actual Creator, whose is the power for the mankind, here debasing
himself to the realm of the imperiously puny, denying the source that they might
even exist, or rationality with them, antagonistic to the exclusive base for all
rational belief.
Correctives for the Bachelor of
Bits, and testimonies to its ludicrous inadequacy, and to the realities both of
reason and reality, the empirical in its actualities, and the actualities of the
living God, there from the first, judge at the last, are the following.
Sums, Summits and in
Sum 11, 12,
Epilogue and
Finale.
Reflections ...
4,
Message of the Words of
God to Man in the Word 5,
4,
Christ Incomparable 2,
The gods of naturalism have no go!
14
Evidence and Reality 2,
5, 6, 7
Impossible for Men, Open to God
3,
Dig Deeper ... 1,
The Kingdoms of this World and the Kingdom of
Christ
8,
The Holocaust of Morality and the Coming of
Christ the King
3,
Glory, Vainglory ''. 1,
God's Gift of Grace in Christ Jesus 7,
The Christian Pilgrimage
5,
It Bubbles ...
9,
Spiritual Food and Spiritual Drink,
This is the Real Missing Link
4,
Repent or
Perish
7.
(See also, more broadly:
The
Majestic Might of the Merciful Messiah 5,
The Track of Truth, Meadows of Mercy and
Peace of Pardon
1,
150
4,
The gods of naturalism have no go!
1,
Spiritual Food and Spiritual Drink,
This is the Real Missing Link 11.)
On Moral realities and
necessities, and some of their applications to various fields: see SMR
Ch. 1, pp.
179ff.,
Ch. 2, Ch.
3, Ch. 4, Barbs ...
6, 7, News
19, Ch. 11 above. Even reason
can attest the goodness of God, as Romans 1 confirms; but its abuse as in
things metaphysical, so in things moral, brings licence in place of law,
quasi-autonomy in place of responsibility, godlike chauvinism in amoral
humanism rather than the definite moral perception and confirmation that
logic requires. It is shown above, that being from God, and made by Him
who needs nothing metaphysically, morally or psychologically, and gives
both life and judgment, salvation and condemnation, the latter only with
the utmost reluctance, equated to His zeal to face in human form the
Cross: we are not oddments.
Rather is the human race
bruised in heart, broken in relationship with our Maker as a race, gifted
with return avenue, in Jesus Christ, and usually given to grumbling about
God or seeking to ignore, caricature or condemn Him, while dismissing Him
anyway, by a sweep of the irrational hand. The final mischief is first to
act out the myth of our jurisdictive powers, and then to collide with
truth, always a humiliating experience, and merely a prelude, when
persistent.
Anti-evidential, dreaming
theistic evolution is simply a drab combination of irrational immorality
and invisible verification, contrary both to the actualities of creation
method, and of evidential testimony; whereas progressive creation is in
turn, a combination of the above, at another level, with some concession
to evidence, if not to morality, and again, as destitute of necessary
evidence as the other. God neither dumped bits to begin a track through
virtual miracles to things better, nor better things, to do the same, in
part or in whole. You do not get such things on the way. What you get, is
one thing: a kind (cf.
News 74;
The Divine
Drama Ch.
10,
A Spiritual Potpourri
Ch.
5), which does not have in the interstices of its heavily
commanded and commandeered DNA matrix, the means for new information, any
more than the paleontological evidence shows such development (cf.
Wake Up World! ... Chs. 4,
5, 6). Morality and scientific
reality go hand in hand, and to both, power plays are irrelevant for the
formation of the information, though not to the judgment on such use by
moral beings such as man.
One may become immune to
morals, but not to their results.
Chapter 50
Strange, the People
You Meet!
Ch. 1 of Let's Be Reasonable, for God Is!
This is a
conversation equipped with 23 endnotes, enabling a combination of simple
dialogue, coming relatively quickly to the point, with detailed scientific data,
so that the lassoing of the meeting can be avoided, and the pith perceived.
Chapter 51
Ch. 2 of ALPHA AND OMEGA,
DISCOUNT THAT
AND YOU'VE GOT A
MUDDLE IN THE MIDDLE
If You Don't Grasp
That,
Muddled, Befuddled,
You'll be Grasped by the Wrong Party
April 2010
Dabbling, Discipline, Daydreaming
and Deity gives a short summary of the philosophic parodies of science which
have successively shaken science into the concussion of the scientistic, in
various periods, and the doctrines make interesting introductions for possible
novelettes; but not for reason, or scientific method. Irrelevant and
quasi-controlling additives have become, for many, the order of the day, and its
blight.
See also
Ch. 1 of this volume, preceding the above;
and *1 of Possess Your
Possessions Ch. 8.
Chapter 52
Ch. 3 of Alpha and Omega
April 2010
Mystic naturalism and revisionist words from Denton
are in view, but not this only, rather trends in this direction from which logic
mercifully gives good protection, and revelation reasonable and assured escape.
Chapter 53
Added in April 2010, this comes from January 2006.
Ch.2 of The Wit and Wisdom of the Word of God,
the Bible True to Test.
Here the emphasis is generic on the realities of the
words from God, their wit, their impact, their results, their evidence and
application broadly from the realms to naturalism to millenialism. The sheer
coverage thematically brings value to this work, for our present volume.
See VOLUME 6
for the remaining Chapters of the HEXAD,
The gods of naturalism have no go!