The airlifting dog rescue from Monday, and Prager's comments regarding our choosing to save dogs rather than humans is instructive on why a faith viewpoint is so central to understanding the elevated role of humans in creation.
Which reminded me today of Randy Alcorn's two creation stories:
In the secular account, you are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a meaningless universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short, you came from nothing >>>>> Read Entire Post
Published on August 03, 2011 16:07