Lucas Garden

My mind is a battlefield between angel and evil, between hope and despair. I watched a movie " A Beautiful Mind " featuring a mathematician Dr. John Nash . Although he had great achievements in the field of mathematics and economics so that he won a Novel prize in economics, he had suffered from schizophrenia . He had been under the false illusion that some virtual persons shadowed him to tease him. It is really ironic that an intelligent figure who won a Novel prize had to suffer from absurd and preposterous thoughts. As I reflect myself, I realize that I do the exactly same things as Nash had done. Satan is not truth, but I am so excessively compliant to him that I easily used to trust his whispers every day and every time. In the view of God, I might be a patient who suffer from schizophrenia and lives in a world of illusion. God is the only doctor who can treat my illness. As anyone who has pains in stomach should not go to an obstetrician, anyone who has pains in his mi...

I have been reading the book " The Language of God " written by Dr. Francis Collins . In the second chapter he raised a question, "isn't the idea of God just wish fulfillment?" Of course NOT in the Christian view. I never suppose that the idea of God is just a psychological consequence of human experiences as Freud suggested. If it were nothing more than wishful thinking, why has the image of God described in the Bible been very different from what we desire? Collins wrote, "The problem with this wish-fulfillment argument is that it does not accord with the character of the God of the major religion of the earth." Moreover, the exquisiteness of natural principles is hard to be understood without assuming the existence of supernatural power. Indeed, I used to exclaim the unerring precision of natural law underlying the fetal circulation as a scientist. For example, the development of fetal brain is sustainable and resilient against abrupt changes in ...