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Saturday, September 08, 2018

the concept of wondrousness

Is it possible for me to assert that God is real.
If God is real he is the ultimate of wonders.
Does the concept of wondrousness have any meaning?
If God is real, we might expect to see other things in the creation (in what is) that are wonders, wondrous or wonderful, ie knowable in some way to the senses yet still utterly inexplicable.
That is to say, things that when conceived of somewhat correctly by a human consciousness betoken in that consciousness pure wonder.
Not just because those things are unexplained. mark you but often specifically and precisely because those things have within certain human perceptual limits been explained.
I submit to the Jury for your consideration... sunrise on the mountains, forests, a robin greeting you, dreams, the oceans in turmoil, the ocean calm, the ocean viewed internally, the ocean from afar, deoxyribonucleic acid, crows, Faure's Pavane, Feel It Still by the music combo styled The Man Portugal, Petula Clarke's Down Town, the good Bat For Lashes song, music generally, Eric Satie's Gymnopedies, Ludovico Einaudi's Divenire and sundry other infernal tootlings by Ludovico Einaudi, the Michael Nyman thing that was misused on a feminist film, 20 Palms by one Robert Plant, literature, the writings of David Berlinski, mystical experiences, The Prisoner Of Zenda, CS Lewis' The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning, the Catholic Church, the Bible, the Jews, Anthony Hopkins acting before he let himself down with that dreadful rubbish,  paintings by Seurat, Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, the three good episodes of Seinfeld (the Soup Nazi, the Marine Biologist, and the Dentist), Larry David occasionally, John Carpenter's film Dark Star, electricity, the eye, heroism, goodness, and human consciousness itself.
There are earthly wonders which we do experience and which even as we know them remain somehow unknowable.
We find wonders in the world and in experience and in thought which point to a greater wonder as source.
God is the summation of wonderment which all wonders point to.
The television cartoonist Seth McFarlane has contended in one of his entertainments that Christianity has held back the development of science, culture and the human race.
We may contend by replay that without Christianity, there would be no science, no culture and indeed no advancement of any sort whatsoever.
Without Christianity there is no Mendel (the monk who pioneered understanding of genetics), no Isaac Newton (who pioneered our understanding of gravity), no Le Maitre (who pioneered conceptions of Big Bang astro physics), and of course no music, no literature, no poetry.
It seems to me in fact that as atheists make science their own in moving away from Christianity, they ever more willingly lay aside the key note of science, which is (believe it or not) Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.
We are seeing the monumental fooboonery of atheism's hijacking of science in our life times.
Near cosmic wrong turns into con jobs like String Theory, Anti Depressant culture and (I hazard here) the Darwinian notion that life started spontaneously by chance.
I will oppose myself to the great McFarlane on this one.
And in so doing I will seek, however briefly, to stand with the poet Blake as he says:

The atoms of Democritus
Newton's particles of light
Are but sands upon the Red Sea shore
Where Israel's tents shine so bright

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