Dear editor:
I'd like to respond to my coffee drinkin' buddy, Mike Nunn's, letter (Monday, Jan. 26).
Mike, I have a cousin who is five years older than I who graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in chemical engineering. Needless to say, he is a very bright man. I had just begun my college education as a freshman and I was looking up to my cousin's achievement with much admiration and awe! I remember saying to him, "Wow, I guess you've really learned an awful lot now!" He responded soberly, "Lloyd, I've now come to realize how very little I really do know." That answer has stuck with me all these years.
Since you have chosen to rely entirely upon science for trying to explain and understand the universe and all of life's meaning, have you ever realized how short that science falls in a total understanding of it all? Mike, if you would interview enough different scientists besides those like Isaac Asimov, even those who do believe in a higher power called God, I'll bet many of them would tell you the very same thing that my engineer cousin did -- that they aren't even close to having all the answers!
I'm certainly not putting down all the great things that science has been responsible for, but please try to realize (consider) that science is only the study of all creation -- the creation that God claims, in the Bible, to have created. When you look at science in that light, you can see that it is very inadequate to give you a total understanding.
You made the claim early in your letter that man has evolved from stardust, rather than being created by God's speaking us into existence -- by His unlimited power. May I remind you, again, that the evolution of man has never been scientifically proven as a real fact, but is still regarded as the theory of evolution. Please try to be more honest with your own self and admit that the real reason why you (and other nonbelievers) insist on elevating evolution to be a fact, instead of a theory, is because you might have a much harder time getting God out of the equation.
One other weak point in your atheistic "sermon" is saying that man was "fortunate enough to have developed brains that enable us to control much of our destiny." I notice you used the word "much" rather than "most" or "all." That statement tells us that life without the God of the Bible is certainly inadequate! We can't really "control" many of the things that can happen to us in this present world, such as the drunk who suddenly swerves over the yellow line and hits you head on, or that unexpected stroke or heart attack, etc. What about the next life after we physically die? Where is your "control" on where you will spend eternity? Will science really be able to help you then?
Trust Jesus.
Lloyd Hoffman
Hot Springs
Editorial on 01/28/2015