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Location:
Arizona
Synopsis:
In this episode, Matt and Tiffany tackle the subject of faith, and the set
of assumptions people accept that determine what they choose to believe.
They travel to Arizona to see a massive
hole in the ground thought to have been created by a
giant meteor crashing into the ground.
They ask the tour
guide about the possibility of such a catastrophe happening again, and
whether
or not it brought life to the earth.
Matt and Tiffany head off to ask
other young people what they think about the idea of
faith, or the idea of a
meteorite hitting the earth again—and the scattered responses give an insight
to the spectrum of opinions about the origin of life.
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FAITH — There
are many definitions but for our purposes let’s
use the belief of something to be true without
absolute proof. That doesn’t mean evidence
and experience are not brought to bear in supporting
or even creating faith; it is the opposite of doubt.
Faith is much more common than one might think.
Even science relies on faith, according to science
philosopher Michael Polanyi, since man’s
passions are impossible to remove from his attempts
to discover. Both creationism and evolutionism
require faith; both rely on a model that involves
events not observed today.
SCIENCE — Once simply the study of nature
and how it works, now it is more the study of
nature and how to understand its workings and
origin entirely from natural law. Modern science
was born when such Christians as Isaac Newton
wished to appreciate God more by the study of
what He had made. Now references to God are considered
contrary to pure science.
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