Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Tuesday, July 9, 2002
Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you
I wait all day long.
To people of faith, it is quite evident that we live in a created universe. To think otherwise
would deny the facts of life as we experience them. Could such an extraordinary world have
happened without a divine hand directing it? Could blind protoplasm work its way up into
intelligent, dreaming, loving human creatures without any creative impulse from a divine mind?
Absurd. Believers cannot deny their faith simply because others are blind or deaf or insensitive
to what seems to be plainly evident to us. As far as we are concerned the burden of proof is on
the non-believer. And rarely are they as confident as they pretend.
(Psalm 25.5
NRSV)
The famous agnostic Thomas Huxley was once lovingly confronted by a very sincere Christian.
This believer stressed to Huxley that he was not in any way impugning Huxley's sincerity.
Nevertheless, might it not be possible that mentally the great scientist was color blind? That is,
some people cannot see traces of green where other people cannot help but see it. Could it be
that this was Huxley's problem--that he was simply blind to truth that was quite evident to
others? Huxley, being a man of integrity, admitted that this was possible, and added that if it
were, he himself, of course, could not know or recognize it. (2) We believe Huxley was blind to
a great many truths.
God of creation, my your truth abound in steadfast love. Amen.
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