During this simplification, I stumbled across the slow-carb diet created by Tim Ferriss. So, as a scientist-in-training, I looked at commonalities and recent data on "healthy eating" to see if I could simplify it all down to a few basics.īut, what does this have to do with brownies.and black beans? I'm getting there, I promise. Between grad school and my dance students, I'm a busy girl and each one of these little boxes just caused more frustration than it was worth. I've tried just about everything from the meat-dominant paleo diet to vegetarianism and found all of this to be very frustrating and way more work than I wanted to put in. Over the last 6 months, I have experiment with a bunch of different eating styles.
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we lose sight of that and spend a lot of time trying squeeze ourselves into little dietary boxes that just plain don't work. However, in our search for the magic cure for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, etc. What works for person A will make person B feel awful and vice versa. Through all of this, I have come to one conclusion: Every person is different and therefore eats differently. Aristotle, for example, differentiated between several kinds, using the example of a sculpture: its material cause (out of which something comes) is the block of stone its instrumental cause (the means by which the effect is brought to pass) is the chisel and hammer, instruments the sculptor uses to bring about the effect.As this blog is evolving, I've been doing a lot of reading on different health trends, allergies, alternative eating styles, and diets. But in the act of creation, there were no trick mirrors, no rabbits, no hats, and not even a magic wand. When we assert creation ex nihilo, the obvious question is, How could God possibly do such a thing? It almost sounds like magic, where God is the magician who pulls a rabbit out of a hat. We call this creativity, but no one in this world has the power or ability to create something out of nothing. His inventive brilliance was in working with materials already at his disposal. Similarly, Rembrandt had to begin with his canvas and paints. But he had to start with some substance or material. Michelangelo’s genius was his unique ability to reshape a block of stone into a magnificent figure. It is inconceivable that his statues could have created themselves without the work of a master sculptor. Michelangelo believed that he did not create a statue but released the figure from its stone prison. Think of Michelangelo, who sculpted magnificent statues from stone. His creative activity is not like that of human artists. God did not take eternally preexisting matter or substance and reshape or reconfigure it into the present world. He said God spoke the universe into being out of nothing. The writer who most thoroughly developed this concept was Augustine.
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The classic Christian doctrine of creation is creation ex nihilo (out of nothing). If you do away with creation, you do away with the Creator. If they can undermine our certainty that we live in a created universe, they can undermine any argument for the existence of God. This point is important because atheists and secularists in recent centuries have focused their attention on creation. If something exists, it must either have the power of being in itself or it must come from something that has the power of being in itself. To medieval philosophers, the idea of something coming from nothing was absurd, unscientific, and illogical.
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It had been established not only by revelation but also by reason, not only by religion but also by science. Until the Enlightenment, the most firmly established article of Christian faith in the secular world was that of creation. It was the power of His word that created. In creation, there was no block of stone or mass of unstructured matter, but only the command of God, who alone had the power to make things happen simply by uttering a command. In the film Anna and the King of Siam, the king frequently says, “So let it be said so let it be done.” That is an imperial command that cannot be countermanded. 1:3, 6, 14 )-meaning “There must be”-and things appeared. God spoke the words “Let there be” ( Gen. Augustine called this the divine imperative or fiat. By what means did God accomplish the feat of creation ex nihilo ? By His speech.