Don’t mock God

I would like not to thank Padraic Carey for his condescending and mocking reply to Daniel Fitzpatrick’s letter (“Don’t just look at the Bible,” Sept. 9, pg. 8). The tone, language and arguments brought forth in Carey’s letter are typical of the atheistic, God-hating scientist which is so prevalent in today’s society. Carey chooses to talk down to Fitzpatrick and the rest of us who have enough faith to believe in God and creation, rather than have an educated discourse.

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 fallible, scientific method. Instead, the only argument we have is the one that came from 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. Of course, trying to extrapolate explanations for things from the Bible is not wrong. Sure, multiple authors wrote the text of the Bible down. But once again, the thoughts and content in the Bible came from one source. I’m sure Carey will have a hard time agreeing 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, Fitzpatrick is correct that if more people believed in God and actually spent time reading his words, 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 principles were applied more often in the world.

Perhaps you might want to use the scientific method to put that argument to test, Mr. Carey. Oh wait, that would require that you test your hypothesis, which might mean that you have to pick up a Bible and actually put what it says into practice. But I doubt you will actually do that because in your letter you have clearly implied that God and the Bible are clearly below you intellectually.

Also, it is not wrong or unhealthy for one to accept things without question. Some things were simply not meant to be questioned. If God had meant for humankind to know everything, it would. Clearly he didn’t, so we don’t.

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 reconcile the concept of faith with his precious scientific method.

I recognize that I was just as condescending in my letter to Mr. Carey as he was in his, but I just couldn’t resist. It is just so hard for me to grasp the fact that someone could be as faithless and anti-God as Mr. Carey could.