Response to 'cult' quote

Dear editor:

I always try to rebut incorrect statements regarding our God and His marvelous works, but as I was preparing to answer Mr. Nunn's quote (a month ago) from his "favorite scientist," Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was ambushed by a very tiny tick who was loaded with Lyme disease. How such a small creature can cause such a large host to fight a life and death battle for weeks -- sometimes months -- I will never understand. Never forget to use your anti-insect spray every time you go out! Everything I've read, everyone I've talked to, said the very same thing that I told my doctor: "I think I'm dying." No exaggeration there! I'm still working on a full recovery.

However, as I was sitting here listening to Professor John Lennox of Oxford University, I thought I'd better get out the laptop and respond to my friend Mike Nunn before everyone forgets that he wrote, on May 21, that we Christians are a "cult of ignorance, a strain of anti-intellectualism that has permeated our political and cultural life," people who believe that "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge."

Wow, Mr. Nunn, really! There is more than one astrophysicist, are you aware? Actually, a belief in God as Creator seems to inspire many scientists! Did you ever hear of Copernicus? Galileo? Johann Kepler, still a household name due to his laws of planetary motion, wrote: "Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not to the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."

Ever heard of Dr. Werner von Braun? There is not room here for quotes from all these great scientists, but they are available with a click of your mouse.

Kepler, Second Law of Thermodynamics? William and Orville Wright, flight? Samuel Morse: "What hath God wrought!" Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, scientist, theologian, writer.

Are you aware that in the last century 65.4 percent of Nobel Prize laureates identified Christianity as their religious preference? Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3 percent prizes in peace, 72.5 percent in chemistry, 65.3 percent in physics, 62 percent in medicine, 54 percent in economics and 49 percent of all literature awards. Some Cult of Ignorance, huh?

I have a favorite astrophysicist, also, dear Mike. You wouldn't like Dr. Hugh Ross because there is a plethora of intellectualism in his works. He told us that he found the professional astronomers who believe in a Creator far outnumber those who don't. Probably because they are watching the entire universe move and work. They see the necessity for an Intelligent Beginning.

When I get stronger, may I come by your place and admire your framed Nobel awards? What! With all that cult-free intellectualism you don't have any? Well, maybe a copy of Neil deGrasse Tyson's awards?

In good humor, I'm at 501-282-3102.

Pat Pine Darnell

Hot Springs

Editorial on 06/28/2015

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