Re: Incarnational theology,

Moorad Alexanian (alexanian@uncwil.edu)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:24:11 -0400

Genesis answers questions that need not be scientific. For instance, where
did I come from? If I could look into the past, what will I find? One can
treat those questions as if they were scientific questions and try to answer
them. But the answers may lie outside the purview of science. Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: George Andrews <gandrews@as.wm.edu>
To: vernon.jenkins@virgin.net <vernon.jenkins@virgin.net>
Cc: bergerd@bluffton.edu <bergerd@bluffton.edu>; asa@calvin.edu
<asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Incarnational theology, was RE: Accepting Genesis 1 as
scientifictruth

>>
>
>Hi Vernon;
>
>You wrote to Dan;
>
>> To insist that Genesis 1 is a 'scientific statement', and to be treated
>> as such, is, I believe, incorrect. I suggest that God intended all
>> generations of men to accept it verbatim as an account of how things
>> began by divine fiat.
>>
>
>But to take it verbatim destroys any rationality of its message from two
stand
>points: 1) internally, i.e. sun on 4th day when three days have past,
etc., and
>2) scientifically, i.e. doesn't line up with data as we presently have.
>
>George
>