{"id":91966,"date":"2015-04-29T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T07:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91966"},"modified":"2015-04-08T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:01:18","slug":"tom-kreitzberg-has-formulated-spongs-law-of-theophysical-asininity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/04\/tom-kreitzberg-has-formulated-spongs-law-of-theophysical-asininity.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom Kreitzberg has formulated Spong’s Law of Theophysical Asininity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

to state that \u201cWhenever a person appeals to quantum physics as the basis for a theological or religious principle, he is making an ass of himself<\/a>\u201c. I hereby proclaim Chesterton\u2019s Corollary: Whenever somebody appeals to size or physical location of a celestial object to prove the significance or insignificance of the human race, he is being an ass. It is on full display here:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s dumb when geocentrists insist that we have to occupy the physical center of the universe in order to be significant. But it\u2019s equally stupid when secularists conclude that we are insignificant (\u201cNo you are not the center of the universe!\u201d) because we are physically tiny. When somebody declared to G.K. Chesterton that \u201cMan is puny compared to the size of the universe, he replied, \u201cMan is small compared to the nearest tree\u201d. Does it therefore follow that trees matter more than human beings or tall men mean more than short ones? What makes human beings significant is that they signify. What they signify, in their very nature, is God in whose image they are made. And signifying God\u2013because they are loved by God\u2013makes us significant. For God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose diameter is nowhere. 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