tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226775685640721039.post1279042263667267402..comments2023-05-06T12:25:47.297+01:00Comments on brushwood thicket: Christmas is over... what now for 2013?Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02896023924138129811noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226775685640721039.post-59608100422292085642013-01-03T16:49:27.032+00:002013-01-03T16:49:27.032+00:00not least the wonders of nature, to move us to see...<i>not least the wonders of nature, to move us to seek God</i><br /><br />Natural selection disposes of a creator. <br /><br />However, on the comment above:<br /><br />"I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice." Charles Darwin (1860)<br /><br />The greatest naturalist ever disagrees with you :-)<br /><br />BTW, Matthew and Luke disagree on the date of the Nativity and Jesus's genealogy (which is full of problems anyway)Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16602020760483338822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226775685640721039.post-56385863855235324442012-12-31T12:36:31.535+00:002012-12-31T12:36:31.535+00:00thanks muchly :)thanks muchly :)Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02896023924138129811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2226775685640721039.post-21626731341666823222012-12-31T09:38:03.871+00:002012-12-31T09:38:03.871+00:00Robin yesterday talked about how we now see the na...Robin yesterday talked about how we now see the nativity as a nice fluffy story in the bible - everything sugar coated for the kiddies and all those we are too scared to give the real message of the Gospel to. He said we now hugely look over the whole Herod story and the dark side of the nativity but it is so relevant. The fact that God placed Jesus in a time of turmoil, had him born in a stable, had his life threatened as a baby show that God is part of our lives at all times and he knows life isn't all fluffy and teatoweled sugar coatedness for us - that some people have evil and darkness in their hearts. The nativity in real context can be a chance for us to really see the fact that God knows us, knows the state of this world and within all that made a promise - not just a rainbow in the sky or a burning tree but a real tangible something you can touch and prove existed promise that there is more and it will be amazing x Happy New Year hun x love your blog xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com