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Monday, June 12, 2023

A Theory of Relativity

"Embryo: the young of a viviparous animal, especially of a mammal, in the early stages of development within the womb." That's what the dictionary says. The "early stage of development." The first stage of development, where stage 2 naturally follows and stage 3 is next and so on. It is a constant process. Embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, toddler ... you get the idea. But for me to make such a claim, solely on the basis of science, is offensive. I must not claim that the thing in the womb is a human being. It's something else. It's not human until I say it is. ("When?" "I'm not sure, but it is not when you say.") That's hate. That's sexism. That's evil. Got it. Science is evil.

"Male: of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to produce relatively small, usually motile gametes which fertilize the eggs of a female." "Female: of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young." "No, no, no! Females can fertilize eggs and males can bear young and no amount of hate will change that!!" Sadly, science has become the enemy of culture, a hateful, heteronormative voice for anti-trans forces. Dictionaries and encyclopedias and biology itself have been subverted to this acrimonious position of binary sex in humans.

We have arrived. Truth is relative. Some truth claims are easy to dismiss. There are no leprechauns or unicorns. 2 + 2 does not equal 5. Easy. But when objective truth violates our current truth we've voted in by divine media and coercion, it is no longer true. And we'll dismiss it out of hand without even considering the ramification that dismissing objective truth will only eliminate the ground we stand on. But, hey, you go ahead. We'll see how that works out for you.
Although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools" (Rom 1:21-22)

2 comments:

Craig said...

I''m not sure that the importance of holding fast the the concept or reality of objective Truth can be over emphasized.

David said...

It's always boggled my mind to see the conservative position on life and gender and the liberal position. The conservative side has a hard and fast definition that applies specifically, but the liberal side has some words that could be generally applied to a wide set of requirements. Maybe it's because I'm male, or simply sane, that I like easily recognizable definitions.