Just like gravity (jump up and you will land somewhere) we are pulled by our hearts, minds and beings to:
Appreciate beauty.
Bring chaos into order.
Value some things over others.
A Christian will tell you that every good gift is from God, such as the gifts of appreciating beauty, ordering chaos, etc.
The picture above is beautiful. To me, at least.
But part (for me) of the beauty is tied to the facts that:
A: God made it, and
B: God made me capable of finding it beautiful.
A complex mass of organic materials combined through the evolutionary process to eventually stand upright and file taxes...Evolution can't explain a sunset, or why we find them lovely.
It's no secret, and I share it for free: We humans are made by God to carry His likeness. He appreciates Beauty, so ipso facto, do we.
Even the most ardent agnostic/atheist/un-deist may be a fan of the beauty found in God's Creation.
"Just happenstance!" they cry.
Poor, self deluded intentionally ignorant jabbererers. Try as they might, they can't argue against the double witnesses of beauty and their appreciation of it.
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Once again, I am probably guilty of not expressing myself well.
"ignorant jabbererers who ranch on that there is no God"
ranch on-the jabbererers "live on/operate from/remain solidly in the place of" arguing that God doesn't exist. They won't be moved off of their position by facts, arguments, reason or entreaty. They are STUCK defending their little square yard of unfriendly soil, because that is all that they have. It is their home, their ranch.
Sometimes I am almost beyond comprehension myself. Ask anyone.
They won't be moved off of their position by facts, arguments, reason or entreaty.
The irony, it burns. A foretaste of hell, perchance.
Google "argument from beauty" and you'll find lots of rebuttals. Here's mine: if God created sunsets, landscapes, flowers, and so on in order to create beauty and created us to appreciate it, He also created fruit bats, bad moms, and the Adactylidium mite. Do you thrill to the song of the bluebird? How about the blue jay? The natural world is full of beauty, and it's also full of ugliness. We remember the sunset and forget the solid week of chilly, foggy, sleety murk in mid-February, because who wants to remember that?
What have you got against fruit bats?
And what are you attempting to rebutt? My assertion that God instilled in us an appreciation for beauty...or that God exists at all?
Checksum-
would "fruit bats, bad moms, and the Adactylidium mite" be evidence that God doesn't exist?
No.
Without 'ugly' in this world, we would have no yardstick by which to measure beauty. Without contrast there is no appreciation. So even the 'un-beautiful' have a purpose.
"We remember the sunset and forget the solid week of chilly, foggy, sleety murk in mid-February, because who wants to remember that?"
If we're happy and reasonably minded, that's the case. Remember my screed about the backwards filter? Some people only remember and focus on the bad and hurtful, as their memory filter is backwards. Makes them unhappy.
Try as [unbelievers] might, they can't argue against the double witnesses of beauty and their appreciation of it.
In other words, beauty, therefore God. I'm simply arguing that the former doesn't imply the latter.
Show me a picture of something beautiful that God did not create.
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