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1. This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
2. Today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our generation sees solutions in terms of synthesis and not absolutes. When this happens, truth, as people have always thought of truth, has died.
3. Statistical studies indicate that pure chance (randomness) could not have produced the biological complexity in the world out of chaos, in any amount of time so far suggested...the study of statistics raises the question of whether pure chance could ever produce an ongoing increased complexity. If chance alone operates, why should that which exists (including biological structure) move toward a consistent increase of complexity?
4. There is no place for the freedom of people in a totally closed cause-and-effect system. Man becomes a zero. People and all they do become only part of the machinery.
5. There is no place for morals in a totally closed cause and effect system.
6. There is no place for love in a totally closed cause and effect system.
7. If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgements conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.
8. The basic problems of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years of so, in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals. They have very gradually become disturbed over permissiveness, pornography, the public schools, the breakdown of the family, and finally abortion. But they have not seen this as a totality---each thing being a part, a symptom, of a much larger problem. They have failed to see that all of this has come about due to a shift in world view---that is, through a fundamental change in the overall way people think and view the world and life as a whole.
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9. But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.
10. Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
