For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,...
Colossians 1:16
"As Jefferson wrote in the Declaration, “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
If we had received our rights only from the government, then the government could justifiably take them away.
Jefferson himself thought that there was scientific evidence for design in nature. In 1823, he insisted so in a letter to John Adams:
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Colossians 1:16
"As Jefferson wrote in the Declaration, “We hold these truths to be
If we had received our rights only from the government, then the government could justifiably take them away.
Jefferson himself thought that there was scientific evidence for design in nature. In 1823, he insisted so in a letter to John Adams:
Contemplating everything from the heavenly bodies down to the creaturely bodies of men and animals, he argued:I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe, in its parts general or particular, it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom of its composition.
It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is, in all this, design, cause and effect, up to an ultimate cause, a fabricator of all things from matter and motion.With such thoughts in mind, he wrote the Declaration, asserting the inalienable rights of human beings derived from “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
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