Moorad
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From: Allan Harvey <aharvey@boulder.nist.gov>
To: mortongr@flash.net <mortongr@flash.net>
Cc: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: 2001's gospel message
>At 07:59 PM 11/5/99 +0000, mortongr@flash.net wrote:
>>At 09:07 AM 11/05/1999 -0700, Allan Harvey wrote:
>>>As an aside, I'd recommend Joel Cannon's review of Contact:
>>>http://alpha.centenary.edu/joel/contact.html
>>>
>>>He points out what also struck me, which is that for Jodie Foster's
>>>character (and presumably also Sagan) the only way for God to be
>>>meaningful is if he "leaves his fingerprints all over the evidence."
>>>
>>
>>In some fashion I agree with Sagan. A God who leaves NO fingerprints just
>>might be an imaginary figure like a leprechaun. Belief in a God with no
>>fingerprints becomes unsubstantiated belief. And maybe that was the appeal
>>of Contact (the book) to me. We Christians need to remember that the
>>resurrection IS a BIG fingerprint.
>
>In some fashion I agree with Glenn (hey, it happens sometimes). Of
>course most fundamentally God's "fingerprint" is Jesus Christ.
>
>The problem comes when people look not at that revealed fingerprint but
>insist on their own ideas of what they think God's fingerprints are
>supposed to look like. When they require that "fingerprint" (be it
>Sagan's orbiting crucifix or "gaps" in the evolution of life) as a
>necessary condition for the truth of Christianity, we must teach them
>that they have no right to tell God how he must reveal himself or how he
>must do his creative work.
>
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