RE: I wasn't "discounting" Glenn's story or his questions

I am surprised that for someone who teaches math you do not know how to
read something that has been written carefully. Yes, one-day humans will
know all about nature. Is that that hard to understand? Then the
question arises, is what we have found out consistent with Scripture or
not? Is that that hard to understand?

Moorad

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Subject: RE: I wasn't "discounting" Glenn's story or his questions

> I believe there are two aspects to nature, viz., the physical and the
> non physical. Accordingly, my worldview is based on my Christian
> faith, dealing with the nonphysical aspect of nature, and science,
> dealing with the physical. Notice that the nature of man is both
> physical and nonphysical.
>
>
>
> Experimental sciences are quite definite and the conclusions from
> them are unavoidable. However, there are areas of science, e.g.,
> historical sciences, where the issues are not as clear cut. **** It
is my
> belief that the day we know all about nature we will find that there
> is no contradiction between Scripture and the findings of science.
**** Of
> course, how we can extrapolate from what we know about science to the
> nonphysical and how we can extrapolate from the nonphysical to the
> physical is not easy and leads to speculative thinking, which I
> consider a waste of time.
>
>
>
> Do I deny the inerrancy of scripture and take Genesis non literally as
> well? Am I like Lewis a conservative with a liberal tinge? You
decide.
>
>
>
> Moorad
>

The day we know all about nature? What are you talking about? This is
an
incredible hedge. The statement between the asterisks is basically
"Science hasn't caught up with the Bible yet." This is an embarassingly
fideistic attitude. I thought we were trying to get beyond this kind of
drivel on this Listserve?

Roger
Received on Mon Oct 25 08:52:53 2004