Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Decendientes de la Mona con Pulgas


Hace varios anos me preguntaba, por que todavia en las escuelas publicas de Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos tienen en los libros de ciencia la sucesion progresiva de un mono hasta lo que conocemos hoy, el hombre. La constestacion a la pregunta me dejo atonito; la enseñaza de la evolucion o Darwinismo esta protegida por las leyes de nuestro gobierno, especificamente el Departamento de Education. No le esta permitido a ningun maestro enseñar que hay evidencia cientifica (Creacion o Diseño Inteligente) que contradice la doctrina Darwiniana. Que te parece? Aqui tienes un ejemplo clasico de que el primer articulo de la Constitucion de este pais solo aplica para defender y propagar una religion o filosofia que disemina ideas que actualmente llevan al mundo a una decadencia moral y caos social. Pero todo esto tiene un proposito funesto y hasta ahora han tenido exito.

Nosotros los Cristianos creemos firmemente que Dios creo a la raza humana, directamente (Genesis 1:20-27), y por lo tanto que la hipotesis (fantasia) de que procedemos de los monos es ilogico o plenamente una erejia. Y aqui se termino el argumento! Eso es lo que yo me creia. El argumento o la creencia de que procedemos de los monos ha tenido consequencias desastrosas en la historia de la humanidad. Por ejemplo en su hipotesis el postula:

Argumento

De acuerdo con la filosofia de Darwin la vida en el planeta provino de una masa de gelatinosa y esta dio paso atravez de millones de años en seres mas complicados. O sea Darwin postulo que no hay originalidad en ninguna especie. Que la vida no aparecio espontaneamente. Sin embargo toda la evidencia de los fosiles cuentan lo contrario; en los millones de fosiles catalogados ninguno muestra que procedio de otra especie, la vida en el planeta comenzo toda al momento. Pero aun estos cientificos estan esperando que un mono se convierta en un humano o todavia esperan encontrar el eslabon perdido. No hay peor sordo que el no quiere oir y no importa cuantas veces tires los dados para conseguir el numero trece, nunca va a suceder!


Quienes promueven esta filosofia y porque?

Les mencione que nuestro sistema educativo enseña evolucion de manera compulsoria, nuestros medios noticiosos, Hollywood con sus peliculas (i.e. Planet of the Apes, dicho sea de paso todavia estamos esperando que estos monos salgan hablando, que tal 6000 años mas) y otros movimientos seculares ateos. Bill Maher un conocido miembro celebrado en la elite de Hollywood dijo lo siguiente: “Evolucion es respaldada por toda la comunidad cientifica, Diseño Inteligente (Intelligent Design) es respaldado por los televidentes de Duke of Hazard”. [Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO August 19, 2005]

Las personas que se afanan con este tipo de propanda tienen como agenda la eliminacion de todo lo que este relacionado con un ser supremo’ “Dios”. He aqui una de las razones, esa negacion perniciosa les permite hacer cosas que van encontra de valores morales. Ian Taylor, autor del libro, In the Mind of Men, dice que los creyentes de la evolucion estan convencidos de que los ceres humanos son el producto de un accidente al azar, o sea que no hubo ningun proposito que por consiguiente no hubo ningun proceso inteligente envuelto. Stephen J. Gould professor de Harvard dice: “ Somos una añadidura, somos un garabato accidental” Que barbaridad!

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Mother Teresa 60 Years Ago by C. Colson


For the first time in more than 30 years, Mother Teresa graces the cover of Time magazine. But unlike the 1975 cover that hailed her as a living saint, this week’s cover titillatingly trumpets, “The Secret Life of Mother Teresa.” The subtitle declares, “Newly published letters reveal a beloved icon’s 50-year crisis of faith.” NBC led the TV pack with serious questions about her faith.
Those letters, written by Mother Teresa over more than 60 years, form a new book called Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. So what do these letters really reveal? Newsflash: One of the great saints of the 20th century had doubts. At times, she even doubted the existence of God. Imagine that!
Now, to put this in perspective, imagine that for 60 years you waded knee-deep in the gutters of Calcutta to tend to the outcast and the dying. In the midst of unspeakable squalor and human suffering, might you at times not doubt God?
Here’s more news: Mother Teresa struggled with depression. When you wrestle with the devil surrounded by human misery, you might have good cause to be depressed! I know from the years I have spent ministering in prisons. There are many times that you question, “Where’s God?” To be depressed in such situations simply makes you human. To carry on through the depression reveals the hand of God.
Not surprisingly, Mother Teresa’s letters are red meat for the media. And atheists like Christopher Hitchens could not resist ridiculing her dark night of the soul. “She was no more exempt from the realization that religion is a human fabrication than any other person,” Hitchens told Time. “Her attempted cure was more and more professions of faith [which] could only have deepened the pit that she had dug for herself.” Hitchens even compared her to the old communists who realized their lives were meaningless after the Soviet Union collapsed. What rubbish!
And meaningless is the last word you would think of to describe Mother Teresa. To help the poorest of the poor die with dignity was the greatest example of faith, particularly while you are suffering yourself, with doubts and with pain and with depression.
She continued to do the toughest job anyone could possibly do. And she did it to her dying day. Why? As she wrote to her spiritual advisor, she submitted to God. “I accept,” she wrote, “not in my feelings—but with my will, the Will of God—I accept His will.” I came to that realization in my own dark night of the soul a couple of years ago when two of my three kids had cancer.
The very essence of faith, you see, is believing even in the absence of evidence. And it is the only way we can know Christ. We can conclude rationally that God exists, that His Word is true, and that He has revealed Himself. But without that leap of faith, we will never know God personally or accept His will in Christ.
So what do the letters of Mother Teresa reveal? For one, they reveal the true cost of discipleship. To follow Christ is to embrace suffering and the Cross. And, at times, to say with Jesus, “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”
Certainly Mother Teresa took on the suffering of the world just as her Lord had done. And she demonstrated a kind of faith that few ever experience. But hers is a faith that will be a lasting witness to the world—when Christopher Hitchens and the media critics are long forgotten.

Renzo


Five years of combine experience in performing inspections and audits, under FDA and DEP regulations, including the following areas: QC analyses, documentation review and reports. I have supervised and managed the academic progress of 130 students. Positions I’ve held include QC Analyst, QA Auditor and Teacher. I was responsible for overseeing environmental enforcement and regulatory investigations for DEP. I was in charge of performing audit inspections with the Department of Environmental Protection’s various branches including EPA. I bring the following skill to this position: auditing, analyzing and inspecting, teaching and supervisory. My academic background includes Business Administration and Bachelor in Science. Isn't he cute?

Global Warming Hypocrisy by Chuck Colson

September 5, 2007
It is good to be back to work this week, refreshed from our summer breaks. Patty and I took our time in August to visit our son and daughter-in-law and their two children at their beach cottage on the lovely island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts—yes, that Martha's Vineyard, made famous by the Kennedys, the Clintons, and scores of other politicians and media figures who take refuge on this lovely wooded island, covered with charming cedar-shingled cottages, rocky wind-swept coastlines, and surrounded by yachts.
During the high season this summer, the island's wealthy gentry held a succession of elegant fundraisers for the likes of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and—with a bipartisan touch—Mitt Romney. It is a watering hole for the likes of Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Carly Simon, all kinds of movie stars. John Kerry is nearby in Nantucket, and the Kennedys—including environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr.—look over from Cape Cod.
Clearly, Cape Cod and the islands are the places to go if you want to watch celebrities. It is also the place to be if you want to see liberal hypocrisy in action. Liberal hypocrisy, you ask?
Most liberal politicians ardently support proposals intended to save the environment. They fly around the country in private jets, urging Americans to give up their SUVs, drive hybrid cars, and leave a smaller carbon footprint. When it comes to reducing their own carbon footprints—well, that's another story.
For years, the wealthy elite of Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod have lobbied hard against a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The proposed complex of 130 wind turbines, 400 feet high, would sit eight miles out in the Sound and be confined to 24 square miles. On a clear day, they would barely be visible from the island's waterfront homes.
The wind farm would generate enough energy to take care of most of the electrical needs of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. And by replacing oil, it would greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental groups like Greenpeace love the wind farm proposal.
But apparently, to paraphrase the late Leona Helmsley, only little people should sacrifice to save the environment. As for the rich and privileged—why, what's the point of spending the summer in an ocean-front home if there is a chance they might glimpse a wind turbine in the distance? What a thing to ask!
That is why the elite of the islands have hired high-powered lobbyists to make the wind farm go away—or at least, into somebody else's backyard.
Almost all of Massachusetts's politicians are against it, except Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), who voted against killing it but will not say he is for it.
These people say they want to save the environment. But they also want their beautiful little enclave to stay just the way it has always been: a place where they can retreat from the world and contemplate great things—like how to prevent global warming.
This story ought to serve as a warning to us all—not only of how hypocritical politicians can be (sadly, we're used to that), but also of how easy it is for people to justify their own behavior. I am grateful that, as Christians, we are held to a higher standard—or at least ought to be—that we obey gladly God's commands to be responsible stewards of the environment, even when it costs us. Well, now I am back in Washington—away, that is, from all that liberal hypocrisy.