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God — evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident
I cannot fathom living without God, neither can I think of Him in terms such as evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident. What I do know is that my internal life was a confused, mixed-up mess until I surrendered everything to God and gave up control of my life. Now if there was no God and I was refusing to take control of my life, wouldn't I lose the ability to function since I don't have any human looking after me, making decisions for me? If I am asking God where I should live, whether I should work and where I should work, where I should worship, who I should help--and there is no God--where does that leave me? How do I keep moving forward in what I believe to be my God-given destiny without being trapped in pitfall after pitfall if there is no God directing me?
"for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day." 2 Timothy 1:12 (KJV)
I cannot find adequate words to express my gratitude that I'm no longer in control of me!!
Jane Mullikin
The New York Times featured an article, Darwin's God, which attempts to explain away any connection between man and God. After having read Andrew Newberg and his research which concludes we are hard-wired to God, I am amazed there are still those who would completely eliminate God from the equation: Newberg asserts, "Unless the human brain undergoes some fundamental change in its function, religion and God will be here for a very long time." while the NYT article asserts, "scholars tend to agree on one point: that religious belief is an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved during early human history. What they disagree about is why a tendency to believe evolved, whether it was because belief itself was adaptive or because it was just an evolutionary byproduct, a mere consequence of some other adaptation in the evolution of the human brain: which is the better biological explanation for a belief in God — evolutionary adaptation or neurological accident?"
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