Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:05:52 PM
‘The progress of science should be undergirded by sound moral and ethical principles.’-Ken Conner
Mr. Conner how do you expect science to be governed by ethics when there is no authoritative definition of morality and no consensus of right and wrong? Morals must be based on truth rather than opinion. In a culture that has grown accustomed to lawlessness we expect every man to do what is right in his own eyes.
Much of what is called science today exists to undermine the foundation of law and morality. If the Creation and Flood accounts in Genesis are nothing but myth, then nothing in the Bible is trustworthy because Christ references Genesis as authoritative…
‘But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife’ [Mark 10:6].
And again…
‘As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man. They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all’ [Luke 17:26].
If the Bible cannot be trusted and the Christ of the Bible is not eternal truth revealed in flesh, then we agree with the culture that there is no truth. Men are limited, ignorant and blind. We cannot possibly know truth in the realm of existence and morals apart from revelation; the infinite God who is outside His creation must reveal these things in order for His image bearers to know them.
We deceive ourselves to think otherwise for ‘the heart is deceitful above all things’. How can you know that what you know about origins and morals is true?
Here is a TownHall classic to illustrate the point…
‘Those of us who support stem cell research do not believe that the embryo's from which they are derived are fully realized human beings, and we therefore do not consider it murder to harvest and try to use them.’ –TH Comment
There it is. They do not ‘believe’ that the embryo is a ‘fully realized’ human being. So it is OK to kill a partially realized person or that which is to be a person?
But what does the Scripture say…
‘O LORD, You have searched me and known me…Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?…For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them’ [Psalm 139].