Rebuttal to the letter written by Padraic Carey

I would like to not thank Padraic Carey for his condescending and mocking reply to Daniel Fitzpatrick’s letter of September 9th. The tone, language and arguments brought forth in Mr.Carey’s letter are typical of the atheistic, God-hating scientist which is so prevalent in today’s society. Mr. Carey chooses to talk down to Mr. fitzpatrick and the rest of us who have enough faith to believe in God and creation rather than have an educated discourse. Mr Carey also goes on to say that he is amazed that someone would respond to his “scientific” argument with a creationist one. Forgive us lowly and ignorant Christians, Mr. Carey, for not having an argument that was formulated with the human concocted,and therefore, fallable scientific method. Instead, the only argument we have is the one that came from the the creator himself, God. Now God might not have physically written down the Bible’s text but he provided the thoughts and ideas for it. And, trying to extrapolate explanations for things from the bible is not wrong. Sure, the bible had multiple physical authors that wrote the text down, but, once again,the thoughts and content in the Bible came from one source. Im sure that Mr.carey will have a hard time agrreing with that because most scientists, while able to comprehend quantum mechanics and other extremely complex ideas, have a very hard time understanding that there is a God and that his ideas created the bible. Continuing on, Mr. Fitzpatrick is correct that if more people believed in God and actually spent time reading his word, the world would be much better off. I challenge Mr.Carey to formulate a plausible argument showing that the world WOULDN’T be better off if biblical pricinples were applied more often in the world. Perhaps, you might want to use the scientific method to put that argument together Mr.Carey. Oh wait, that would require that you test out your hypothesis which might mean that you have to pick up a bible and actually put what it says into practice. I doubt you will actually do that though because in your letter you have clearly implied that God and the bible are clearly below you intellectually. It both saddens and annoys me that there are so many faithless people like Mr. Carey in the world. Mr. Carey’s problem is that he cannot reconsile the concept of faith with his precious scientific method. Also, it is not wrong or unhealthy for one to except things without question. Some things were not meant to be questioned. If God had meant for humankind to know everything, they would. Clearly he doesnt, so we dont. Lastly, I recognize that I was just as condescending in my letter to Mr. Carey as he was in his, but I just couldnt resist. It is just so hard for me to grasp the fact that someone could be as faithless and anti-God as Mr. Carey. Ryan Holguin COM ’03