That is the pride of life. Kiburi cha uzima!
Collins was like you but he eventually believed in God.
"I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" "Why am I here?" "Why does mathematics work, anyway?" "If the universe had a beginning, who created it?" "Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?" "Why do humans have a moral sense?" "What happens after we die?"
I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, "Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative."
But reason alone cannot prove the existence of God. Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. Ultimately, a leap of faith is required.
Usimtenganishe Mungu na science maana Mungu kaumba hiyo science so when you worship basi umtukuze kwakutusaidia kutupa akili ya kufanya science. Ndiyo maana ana itwa almight; omnipresent and omniscience. Kila kiumbe kiko bound kwenye time and memory lakini yeye ni eternity past present and future is open to him inamaana akili zetu zinaweza kuita jana siku baada ya masaa 24 tuliyojiwekea lakini mungu anauwezo wakuifanya akili yako irudi nyuma nahiyo jana ukaiita leo kwasababu hayuko bound na time. Time ni ratiba tulizojiwekea sisi wanadamu is part of identification kwasababu ya brain zetu kutoweza kufunction in all direction past present and future. Basi ku avoid confusion tukajiwekea calender ambayo ni sehemu ya stages za development ya human mind katika ku perceive material things. Wagonjwa wa akili wanatudhihirishia hili. Wapo ambao memory zao zimefutika hawawezi kujua future bali past events tu akianza kukuongelesha anakwambia vitu alivyo vifanya miaka 30 kama vile vimetokea leo masaa kadhaa; I have seen such people. Wapo ambao hawakumbuki kilichotokea sekunde iliyo pita ila vinavyotokea sekunde hiyo tu. Hiyo by itself explain how God can not be bound by time and memory he is part of all these.
So tunapomwabudu tuna mwabudi katika kweli na roho. Yaani the visible and invisible regardless of when and how these would come into contact with us.
Sayansi haina kuabudu. Ukishaabudu umeondoka katika sayansi ya kweli. Ukiabudu uwezo wa kufanya observation unaondoka kwa sababu utakuwa unasujudu.
Sayansi haina kuabudu. Ukishaabudu umeondoka katika sayansi ya kweli. Ukiabudu uwezo wa kufanya observation unaondoka kwa sababu utakuwa unasujudu.
Sawa, mbona hutuambii wamepokea wagonjwa wangapi toka kwa "wachungaji" walaghai kama kina Kakobe, Fernandes, Rwakatare, Ndodi, "Manabii na "Mitume", na matapeli kibao wanaojificha nyuma ya pazia la imani?"Hapa Arusha KILA HOSPITALI IMEPOKEA WATU WA MAGONJWA YA PRESHA, KISUKARI, PUMU, N.K. AMBAO WALIKWENDA LOLIONDO "KUTIBIWA" MARADHI HAYO NA BAADA YA KUPATA "NAFUU" (PSYCHOLOGICAL) KWA KAMA WIKI MBILI TU WAMEANZA KUUMWA SERIOUSLY NA KURUDIA DAWA ZAO ZA HOSPITALI TENA.
Pili, mimi nikiwa mfanyakazi wa maabara ya hospitali ya MT Meru, sijaona hata mgonjwa mmoja wa ukimwi aliyepata "seroconversion" yaani kurudi "seronegative from serpositive status". Kinachosikitisha ni kuwa kuna watu hawataki kabisa kusikia yanayosemwa na madaktari na wafanyakazi wa hospitali mbalimbali hapa Arusha ambao kila siku tuna-deal na watu wanaozidiwa baada ya kwenda Loliondo.
Mbaya zaidi kuna magazeti, tv na redio hayataki kabisa kusikia ukweli wa majanga yaliyowafika watu waliokwenda huko. Ajabu pia ni kuwa kuna watu ambao ukitaka kuwaeleza ukweli wanakuona wewe ni mpagani usiyemwamini Mungu. Naomba waandishi wa habari wawe proactive katika kutafuta ukweli na si kutegemea mass hysteria iliyowakumba maelfu ya watu wanaotafuta miujiza kwa nguvu."
Source: MJENGWA - Picha, Habari & Matangazo: Kama Haya Ni Ya Kweli: Tiba Ya ' Babu' Na Ushuhuda Wa Kimaabara
Hapo sasa unaanza kung'atuka kwenye u-expert member. Afadhali uongee Kiingereza tu kwa sababu maneno ya Kiswahili naona unachanganya maana yake. Sayansi ya kweli? Kwani kuna sayansi ya uongo?
Ukiabudu utakuwa unasujudu? Thomaso alimwabudu Yesu "live" na kufanya observation ya kovu za misumari aliyopigwa Yesu. Ali-observe sio tu kwa macho, bali pia kwa kuchukua kidole chake na kugusa ubavuni mwa Yesu kisha akakiri kwamba huyo anayemuona ni Yesu aliyefufuka. Halafu wewe unasema ukiabudu huwezi kufanya observation? Du! Labda umechoka mzee ukapumzike na kutafakari Injili uliyoisikia leo.
So essentially Douglas S Winnail is basically preaching and preaching, almost village preacher type. And then he comes to the Proofs.
This is where I get rather interested.
Proof 1
Creation Demands a Creator - actually no, creation demands a creative process, which does not necessarily demand a creator. Random processes, given enough time can evolve into a creative process (creative in a totally purposeless but self enhancing way, as in say, evolution). So from this line of thought you can argue evolution by natural selection is a creative process, but it does not demand a creator
Proof 2 Life Demands a Life Giver
When you see this, especially coming right after proof 1, you begin to wonder whether this guy has enough arguments. This is basically the same argument recycled under the banner of "life'. I have already addressed this above with the evolution example.
Proof 3 Laws Demand a Lawgiver
Same old argument recycled again. My question is, how do you know that that lawgiver is not "the symmetry of nature" or "mathematics" ? How do you know that the lawgiver is god ? Is this guy running out of arguments in his first proof?
Proof 4 Design Demands a Designer
Basically same shyt, yeah, this guy is out of arguments. I say the same thing. If design demands a designer, how do you know that that designer is not "the symmetry of nature" or "mathematics"? How do you know it is god ?
Proof 5 Fulfilled Prophetic Promises
Fulfilled my foot, Nostradamus can claim that too. The second law of thermodyunamics predicts a closed system is always going from order to disorder, from low entropy to high entropy, so what fulfilment? Hogwash.
In addition there is no reason why some zealous ppl wouldn't order the fulfilment o ancient prophecy, my question is. Yesu alipowaambia wayahudi fulani kwamba hawataionja mauti kabla ya kurudi kwake mara ya pili, wako wapi wayahudi wale ambao leo wanatakiwa kuwa na mika zaidi ya 2000 ? Mbona hiyo prophecy haisemwi? Huyu si alikuwa mwana wa mungu huyu ?
Proof 6 Answered prayer
How about watu wanaoshindwa kuponywa na babu wa Loliondo despite prayers? Usitake watu wa focus kwenye happenstances na coincidences na placebo effects zinazoitwa answered prayers huku ukikataa kuangalia mara zote ambazo hupati majibu kwa sala. The test of a chain's strength is not on it's strongest point, rather on it's weakest point.
Proof 7 A way of Life that Works
Works according to whom? Agano la kale lina code of hygiene iliyopatikana kwa trial and error, kitabu kikawaambia watu wakinya (asjakum) wafukie mashonde na wasiyaache ovyo. If this works, it is not because there is a god, It is because burying excreta means less exposure to bacteria.
Agano la kale hilo hilo linasema tuwaue kwa kuwapiga mawe wazinzi, how is that a way of life that works? Sounds more like a way of death that works to me.
Just because the bible prescribe a working more (if at all it does that) this does not prove it is a work of god. Some very wise people can sit down and devise a way of life that works, and not necessarily need a god. In my opinion the secular humanists, some of them anyway, have a higher moral standard than most of Christendom, and they do not need god to validate them. So this idea is misguided at best.
Proof 8 A Coming Judgment
This guy is hilarious, he is trying to say that something which hasn't even happenned is proof that god exists!
Ushaniboa, hata huyo wa pili sijui kama ninataka kumsoma.
Sawa, mbona hutuambii wamepokea wagonjwa wangapi toka kwa "wachungaji" walaghai kama kina Kakobe, Fernandes, Rwakatare, Ndodi, "Manabii na "Mitume", na matapeli kibao wanaojificha nyuma ya pazia la imani?
Mimi ni Daktari, angalau nimebahatika kuwaona wachache niliokuwa nawafahamu kuwa na kisukari na ambao walihitaji tiba kila siku ya maisha yao na ambao sasa hawahitaji tena kufanya hivyo na wanaendesha maisha ya kawaida. Bado sijaelewa Pathology ya mabadiliko hayo na sijawashuhudia wakipata kikombe, lakini wenyewe wanasisitiza mabadiliko haya yametokea baada ya kwenda Loliondo. Kwa upande mwingine katika maisha yangu ya kikazi ya zaidi ya miaka 30 sasa sijashuhudia hata mtu mmoja aliyeponywa kikwelikweli na "Wachungaji" wa aina niliyoitaja hapo juu.
Hao ndiyo wanaowachelewesha wagonjwa wa cancer, ukimwi n.k. kupata matibabu ya kisayansi; lakini kwa upande wa huyo wa Loliondo ni rahisi kwa wanaozodiwa kwenda hospitalini (Na nadhani Babu hajawazuiakwenda Hospitalini) kama mediaman anavyoshuhudia kuwaona maana Babu hawang'ang'anii wagonjwa iliaendelee kuwakamua sadaka, fungu lakumi, matoleo na shukrani kama wafanyavyo wasanii wa kiimani hao.
...MVUA, KIPINDUPINDU, HOMA YA MATUMBO, SAFURA NA UTAPIAMLO VITAWASIMAMISHA WATU KUTOKWENDA HUKO.... (KILA ANAEKUNYWA SUMU HUNYWA KWA HIYARI YAKE... SISI KAZI YETU NI KUONYA TU!) NA WATAKAOTOKA HUKO, BAADA YA TIMU YA MADAKTARI ILIYOKWENDA KUWAOKOA WAKIRUDI WATAKUWA MASHUHUDA KWA HILI.Can somebody dare and go stop Babu kwa faida ya taifa hili hata kama viongozi hawafanyi?
Nini watu wanafanya serikali isiposikiliza hatari na kuchukua hatua? MwanaMageuko na wengine why shouldnt you take step kwenda kumsimamisha (au kumuambia asimamishe) babu kwa kuwa mnauthibitisho wa kutokuponya zaidi ya kupooza na pia kuna sumu ndani yake na maono yake hamyaamini?
Mtaongea tu hapa JF kwa member 30,000 na mamilioni ya watanzania yanateketea...........maneno yametosha...msioamini dawa ya babu nenda mkamsimamishe sasa hata kama serikali haifanyi........ndivyo wanavyoandamana kwenye migodi wanzanchi wanapokufa na serikali haisikilizi
Huyo ndiyo Kiranga mpya baada ya kutoka kwa babu loliondoKiranga we can argue here till the cows come home but we're not going to have any conclusion because the truth is, we can't explain the existence of God by using empirical data.
Kuna sayansi inayokuwa influenced na siasa au dini, inaondoka katika misingi ya sayansi ya ukweli.
Wewe unafahamu tenets za dini kwamba huwezi ku question dini? Uki question mungu ametoka wapi unaambiwa unakufuru. Unatakiwa kuabudu tu bila kuuliza. Utawezaje kuuliza kitu unachotakiwa kukiabudu? Unajua kwa nini mpaka leo doctrine ya kikristo ina look down on Thomas, na anafananishwa na wasioamini mpaka watu wasio na imani wanaitwa "doubting Thomases" ? It is not like the Christian tradition is rooted in inquiry, it is not.
Kuna sayansi inayokuwa influenced na siasa au dini, inaondoka katika misingi ya sayansi ya ukweli.
Wewe unafahamu tenets za dini kwamba huwezi ku question dini? Uki question mungu ametoka wapi unaambiwa unakufuru. Unatakiwa kuabudu tu bila kuuliza. Utawezaje kuuliza kitu unachotakiwa kukiabudu? Unajua kwa nini mpaka leo doctrine ya kikristo ina look down on Thomas, na anafananishwa na wasioamini mpaka watu wasio na imani wanaitwa "doubting Thomases" ? It is not like the Christian tradition is rooted in inquiry, it is not.
hapo bold ulichokisahau ni asili ya hayo makabila uliyoyataja! Umeshau kwamba asili ya makabila hayo ni huko Sonjo, na historia yao inasema hivyo, na wakisafiri kutoka serengeti mpaka sonjo kwa ajili ya kufuata miti hiyo! Hili la kuuziwa na wataturu limeanza miaka ya karibuni.Mwanamageuko ungewasilisha utafiti wako wizarani(afya) au moja kwa moja kwa lukuvi ministry,ingekuwa ni heri zaidi.
Hao waikoma,wangoreme na hata waisenye uliowataja,hawana ufahamu wowote juu ya mti huu na ndio maana wananunua sumu ya mishale toka kwa wataturu na wasonjo.~YOU CAN BUY A GOOD DOCTOR,BUT NOT A GOOD HEALTH~
Uko na akili timamu na ni jukumu lako kufananisha, ukipata jawabu chukua kinachokufaa kisichokufaa achana nacho... kitu ambacho mnashindwa kutofautisha ni pale wanapofananisha mti wa mchungwa na mlimao!? Mti uliofanyiwa utafiti Kenya uko tofauti kidogo na huo wa Loliondo japokuwa inaonekana yote ni "carissa edulis" ama kwa kimasai "alamuriaki" ambao wamasai hula matunda yake... (maneno mengi yanasemwa... mara babu mti anaotoa mizizi ni huohuo mmoja tu toka ameanza!!! - nasi tunayakubali maneno hayo!!) wacheni miujiza iendelee na mwisho wa siku pori lile litabaki kipara kama si jangwa!Kuna thread inayohusu dawa ya babu hapa kama ilivyofanyiwa utafiti na mmoja wetu humu. Itafute tukompee na hii ya kwako.
Wanaokosa hoja utaona wanavyoanza kuporomosha mitusi na kejeli za jumla jumla. I will be better than that.
Obviously you do, why bother answering and mentioning that then? Halafu wewe ndiye spokesperson wa JF nzima?
I suspect you do not have what it takes to realize what is casuistry and cosmogony when it comes to issues like this.
Simpletons siku zote huona kila kitu simple, kwa hiyo sishangai.
Science has more answers than religion, but it is more humble in that it acknowledges the real challenges.
Religion does not have answers apart from explaining everything by some unrealistic supernatural forces, but claims to have the answer to everything. I will choose the former any day.
Faith = the absence of knowledge
Of course it is unmeasurable, how can you measure an unknown?
Sasa kama hakuna cha kupima utanishawishi vipi kama kuna kitu?
Science is doing this right now, and though it does not have full answers, it is doing a much better job than the mythology of religion.
Which personal experiences? be specific. Which personal experiences of yours that cannot be explained in any other way except by the existence of god ?
Ushaniambia dini/ mungu ni imani, na mimi sitaki habari za imani kwa sababu faith = lack of knowledge. I want to know. Kwa hiyo hapa hamna deal. Two different worlds.
Science iko based on proving the provable, ushasema mungu ni imani, science inataka knowledge na si imani. Sasa science ita prove mungu kivipi ?