From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 20:48:47 EDT
Cmekve@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/30/03 12:59:14 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> gmurphy@raex.com writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> << I thought it was very good. I missed most of the special session
> on divine action (caught only Terry's paper) because I was involved with the
> cosmology discussions. I'm glad that ID did not seem to be a defining issue for
> folks there. Certainly there are varying views on that in the ASA
> but I hope we can continue to avoid being sharply divided along party lines.
> >>
>
> Agreed. I don't think I heard the word "ID" used the whole time. However, I
> was struck that there is a distinction between those people who expect to see
> "God's fingerprints" abounding and those who don't (I emphasize that the
> "fingerprint people" include non-IDers). Did this strike anyone else? It would
> be interesting to know if there are denominational correlations.
>
> I was also somewhat appalled to hear Hugh Ross list twenty or so passages
> throughout the Bible supposedly giving detailed scientific cosmological
> information. Guess I'm not a "fingerprint" kind of guy!
>
> BTW, the weather cooled off considerably once the rest of you attendees left
> town!
I was sorry to have to miss the last a.m., including Hugh's talk. He's a good
astronomer & I appreciate his interest in seeing that science-theology dialogue be
useful for the church & not just an academic exercise. But I can't say much for his
hermeneutics.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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