Today's Remarkable Study: The LINK

About six months ago we got the nasty news from the Blogstream spokesman for Orthodox Christianity that Fluffy the dog was not going to Heaven. Although Thomisticguy at "Theology for Dummies" did not have God's blueprints for the creation of dogs, Thom claimed they did not have immortal souls but rather had sensate souls, because the Bible told him so - somewhere.

Thom remarked: Humans "can abstract concepts from real things...You can carry these concepts (abstractions) around in your mind...an immaterial process". He further explains this immaterial process enables free choice. "Free choice is simply your ability to compare and contrast possible means (conceptualized options) to a particular end and then choose one means to the end over another. Animals cannot do this because they cannot fully immaterialize, conceptualize and abstract ideas." Well, here on the Genuine Article we have news for all the doubters, but lets learn a more important lesson first.........

Most recently, in a post on the transcendent nature of God there appeared a moment of brilliance from "longlivemonarchy". He brought into question human judgement in these types of matters.... which I excerpt below:

"...God's essence so exceeds our minds that we could not contain Him. Moreover, even Thomas Aquinas acknowledges this point when he concludes that the human mind is incapable of coming to a true judgement as to wether the world is created, or infinite ...Thus, the mind cannot even discern all truths about the world by virtue of reason. How could it contain all truths about God?... it delineates a limit to human experience. It says ...something about the inadequacy of the human mind. It is not so much a proposition about God, as it is about us...That means that our propositions about the properties attributable to God are often demarcated by our capacity to to demarcate things. That means God shatters our categories, because God is not a thing, and God even shatters our logic...The human mind is inadequate alone, such as the world is created or infinite, and necessitates assistance--the grace of revelation, the grace of Christ."

The LINK

Research now concludes that some Apes and Birds strategize, plan ahead, making complex decisions in consideration for the future. In short, we have animals that now demonstrate the capability of doing most of what Thom previously postulated differentiated man from animal. Lets not make the error of supposing they have suddenly learned. Rather, we being so incapable of knowing God's creative powers are now only beginning to learn.

Apes and birds today, as we get smarter, Fluffy tomorrow.

THE SURVEY

We are one day away from the worldwide release of the motion picture "DaVinci Code". Please note my earlier spirited defense of the truth revealed in this movie.

Catholics and Protestants, realizing their demands that believers not watch "The Passion of Christ" had failed miserably, have been trying to figure out how to minimize the obvious damage of the DaVinci Code. They have been talking up the hope of bringing new members into their fold through careful and rehearsed explanations of the "absurdities" in this new movie.

A catholic research study released yesterday “The Da Vinci Code” has undermined faith in the Roman Catholic Church and badly damaged its credibility. The British survey, released by a group of prominent Catholics, revealed that readers of Dan Brown's blockbuster novel are twice as likely to believe Jesus Christ fathered children and four times as likely to think the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei is a murderous sect.

I tried to tell you that “The Da Vinci Code” is not just entertainment. But those Protestants here who call Catholics their church fathers scoffed at my assertions.

Astonishingly, a prominent collection of English Roman Catholic monks, theologians, nuns and members of Opus Dei, commissioned the survey from pollster Opinion Research Business (ORB) and sought to promote Catholic beliefs amid the film’s release. These leaders just didn't get it. Somebody should tell them and the Protestant clergy of today that we no longer live in a time where evil can be hidden.

People are saying that they will not be lied to any longer by these child molesters and lovers of murderers.

Thank the Lord for the Restoration of the Gospel and the return of the one true church.

This was taken at great distance. The original picture did not reveal the prongs on these antelope. They were but specks in the viewfinder and in the main photo. After loading this photo into my computer and using the Canon editing software to zoom into these fellows, I was surprise to see excellent detail. Remarkable camera.

Pueblo Colorado photo as RAW from a Canon Digital Rebel and edited in Digital Photo Professional

In an interview with CNN's Tony Snow yesterday, Bill Cosby spoke his mind. This was quite unlike Hillary Clinton's quick apology after criticising the younger generation for being lazy...after being chided by her daughter. The text follows (Please keep in mind that I am transcribing an oral conversation, so the text is not always grammatical:

COSBY: "We are at a time when you look at numbers. And people throw these numbers out and these numbers tend to have no feeling about the incarcerated African male. This is not good news when you have the African American female looking for a love partner, a mate, a business partner, a marriage partner, whatever you want to call it for someone to build a family and a home with. This is not your grandmother's world. This is a WHOLE different place. And you have got to be thinking about YOU taking charge in business, family, raising your home. You have to take care of YOU. There is a whole bunch of confusion in this United States about who we are. We are many many things. We are the weakest, we are the strongest within ourselves. There are tons and tons of examples of those who have been down as low as anybody can be as in having a foot on your throat and they toss that foot away and get up and they win! And there are those who have had things and they have allowed themselves to become something called a "culture" that Mr. Farracon has said "is leading our children into the valley of death."

Narrator: "Do you think Legacy at all."

Cosby: " Yes, not for me. I think legacy and I think how our race is allowing the word "culture" to allow people accompany us who are drug dealers, and saying they are dealing drugs because they don't want to flip burgers or think about moving higher in the business world, or getting an education. (Now getting animated) I am watching TV and I'm watching a host of a show who is applauding a movie about some damned pimp and how rough his life is and a movie about some damned drug dealer and how intelligent he is because he can count money. These people have gone crazy. It's not a legacy and it certainly is not a culture ...."