Whoops - That's Gonna Be a Problem

"When the rulers and elders and scribes saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, ..."

 - From Acts 4

If you cite the scientific underpinnings of your opinion, you have already cost yourself some points with me.

If you claim that you have academia on your side . . . that you only go with what experts are saying . . . then you have made yourself less persuasive with me.

If you suggest that your study of Greek and Hebrew makes you a better Bible scholar than I, then you may have just locked in my already-firm position.

God is very clear. The entire witness of Scripture is unequivocal:

Your higher learning and "love" for science is meaningless.

Let science raise a dead person to life. Let science solve just one of the world's most pressing problems: hunger, disease, poverty.

Science can't do it, because science is not as great as it thinks it is.

I have disdain for the way you look down on "uneducated" people.

I began my Christian pilgrimage grounded in a system that regarded "common" people more highly than the gifted, the beautiful, the wealthy, and the well-connected. This happens to be a very high virtue, the lack of which has fostered so many of our current world problems.

The sooner we can put "experts," "scientists" and all other "important" people in the back of the line to solving the world's problems, the better.

Oh wait, I take that back. The sooner we get rid of the line completely, and treat all people with respect and dignity, the better.