Law, Theory, or Truth?
Theme of the Week: Truth Really Does Matter
Sunday, January 14, 2007
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Who Said It…Mark Geil
Mark Geil wanted to be a deejay growing up. But instead he's director of the Biomechanics Laboratory and an assistant professor in Georgia State University's Department of Kinesiology and Health. Dr. Geil was on his college's varsity fencing team, coaches his three daughters' soccer teams, and plays lots of tennis. Add paintball skills acquired while counseling at summer camps. What He Said…Law, Theory, or Truth?
In the biomechanics course I teach, I always take a day to explain the story behind Newton's Laws of Motion, which fundamentally changed how scientists viewed the world. They correctly described the motion of the farthest falling star and the nearest falling apple, and disproved the earlier ideas of Aristotle. Sir Isaac was truly brilliant, and with his "laws" physicists had surely and finally arrived at the truth.
Until Albert came along. Einstein's theories of relativity revealed flaws in Newton's "laws." Einstein died without finding his "unified field theory." Truth, it seems, is fleeting.
If brilliant scientists can't arrive at "truth" regarding natural law, little wonder that so many in our society believe no absolute truth exists about morality.
Jesus is the "stone that makes people stumble" because He audaciously declares that there is absolute truth and that He's its source. For a scientist it's refreshing to know there's an infallible source of truth and a textbook to teach it: the Bible. Develop a hunger for truth and a knowledge of its Source.
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When Your truth is under attack, Lord, help me to stand up for it without belligerence.
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