Last night Melissa asked me what Fractured Perspicacity means after reading my first Blog post, and after I explained it, she questioned why I would choose that as a name. Mostly I chose it because I am a weird, sarcastic kind of guy. However since she asked, I have been thinking about it a lot and I do have reason for it.
It is nothing more than a fancy way for me to describe the state of the world from my understanding. In the simplest breakdown it means broken understanding, and that is exactly how I see the people around me perceiving their world, with a broken understanding of the events around them. We (The people of this earth) have gone far too long without questioning people we consider to be in authority or hold expert opinions, and we have allowed them to break our ability to understand and perceive the world around us. Let’s look at some examples.
The Theory of Evolution being taught and believed as law. Please read that previous sentence again and pay attention to the highlighted words before closing your mind to another Christian striking down evolution. I constantly here comments like "what’s wrong with teaching evolution, its science," (Which it is). The problem is when people make comments like this they are often expressing that they shouldn't doubt or question science. Sure, evolution is science (doesn’t mean its right), Intelligent design is science as well (doesn’t mean that’s right either). The media, scientists, evolutionists have broken the world's (That’s you and me folks) understanding of where we came from because why would anyone question a science text book, or what a Dr. in the field of evolution says as truth.
Here is one of my favorite broken understandings out there; Christians are intolerant and hate (insert any sin here but reference the sinner not the sin). Christians DO NOT HATE ANYONE. Most hate evil and sin (even the sins we find ourselves trapped in). Despite the attempts by certain groups to tie the two together; I can say that homosexuality is wrong and still have love for homosexuals. I can say the Islam is false, and still love my Muslim brothers. We practice this type of intolerance everyday in America but no one bats an eyelash unless its Christians saying they believe something is wrong. We tell drug addicts what they are doing is wrong, and yet we help them to recover (translated: showing them love). Damn you rehab clinics and your intolerant ways!!!
It’s about time we fixed our fractured perspicacity. I say this to everyone out there whether you are Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Agnostic, Wiccan, Pagan, Searching, it doesn’t matter; You need to challenge life, challenge ideas, and NEVER allow society to determine your understanding of the world.
--ATC Bob
It is nothing more than a fancy way for me to describe the state of the world from my understanding. In the simplest breakdown it means broken understanding, and that is exactly how I see the people around me perceiving their world, with a broken understanding of the events around them. We (The people of this earth) have gone far too long without questioning people we consider to be in authority or hold expert opinions, and we have allowed them to break our ability to understand and perceive the world around us. Let’s look at some examples.
The Theory of Evolution being taught and believed as law. Please read that previous sentence again and pay attention to the highlighted words before closing your mind to another Christian striking down evolution. I constantly here comments like "what’s wrong with teaching evolution, its science," (Which it is). The problem is when people make comments like this they are often expressing that they shouldn't doubt or question science. Sure, evolution is science (doesn’t mean its right), Intelligent design is science as well (doesn’t mean that’s right either). The media, scientists, evolutionists have broken the world's (That’s you and me folks) understanding of where we came from because why would anyone question a science text book, or what a Dr. in the field of evolution says as truth.
Here is one of my favorite broken understandings out there; Christians are intolerant and hate (insert any sin here but reference the sinner not the sin). Christians DO NOT HATE ANYONE. Most hate evil and sin (even the sins we find ourselves trapped in). Despite the attempts by certain groups to tie the two together; I can say that homosexuality is wrong and still have love for homosexuals. I can say the Islam is false, and still love my Muslim brothers. We practice this type of intolerance everyday in America but no one bats an eyelash unless its Christians saying they believe something is wrong. We tell drug addicts what they are doing is wrong, and yet we help them to recover (translated: showing them love). Damn you rehab clinics and your intolerant ways!!!
It’s about time we fixed our fractured perspicacity. I say this to everyone out there whether you are Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Agnostic, Wiccan, Pagan, Searching, it doesn’t matter; You need to challenge life, challenge ideas, and NEVER allow society to determine your understanding of the world.
--ATC Bob
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While I fully agree with you on intolerance and there being no place for it anywhere/from anyone, I think you misunderstand a bit about what "teaching the Theory of Evolution" means.
No one is trying to push the theory as a law. There are two different things here... there's teaching evolution (which can even be broken in to macro/micro evolution) and teaching the theory of evolution.
Evolution as a concept is proven. It has been observed, even the kind of evolution that results in a new species.
The Theory of Evolution is taking what we know and have observed and applying it to other areas, like origins.
However, the Theory of Evolution says nothing of abiogenesis. It is not an attempt to say where we came from.
"The theory of evolution not only says that life evolved, it also includes mechanisms, like mutations, natural selection, and genetic drift, which go a long way towards explaining how life evolved."
Probably something that could never be proven, but they can certainly find supporting evidence for it.
"Intelligent design is science as well" -- I really don't understand that? Intelligent design is a theory for covering the same things the Theory of evolution covers, but it's support is the Bible and faith. I'm not putting down intelligent design or anything... I just recognize that it is not science, it is faith.
Although I wasn't batteling Evolution(Expect that in some future Blog). I will defend intelligent design a little here.
"Evolution as a concept is proven. It has been observed, even the kind of evolution that results in a new species." ?? Where? It has happened in a lab but the end result only produced two varieties of the same moth that would not mate. No new genetic material was created.
"Intelligent design is a theory for covering the same things the Theory of evolution covers, but it's support is the Bible and faith."
Intelligent design is not supported by the Bible, it may support the Biblical account of creation, but it does not draw support from the Bible.
From the discovery institutes web page: The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
Truly it takes more faith to believe evolution then intelligent design if we look closely at the evidence for both.
"Where? It has happened in a lab but the end result only produced two varieties of the same moth that would not mate. No new genetic material was created."
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
Section 5.*. It's a lot to read through and I admit I only skimmed it.
"The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
Truly it takes more faith to believe evolution then intelligent design if we look closely at the evidence for both."
To believe in evolution? No, that does not take faith. It has been observed.
To believe that everything happened by chance and there was no design/designer? Sure, faith is involved here. Whenever you start talking about unknowns, holding to a belief on what that unknown consisted of could be considered faith.
More faith? I think you're pressing it there. Guess that's a matter of personal opinion though.
I'd still like to stress though that evolution does not insist on no designer.
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