Re: Whose Burden of Proof?

In a message dated 12/1/2003 1:05:07 PM Mountain Standard Time,
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com writes:

[snip]

> Although evidence of design in creation (if detectable) suggests (a)
> designer(s), this is not theologically very useful. Unless we know whether
> this/these designer(s) is/are Zeus, Baal, Ungabunga, Raelian aliens, Allah, Jesus,
> etc., we cannot tell what we should believe about God and what duties He
> requires of us (cf. Westminster Confession of Faith, I.i).
>
> [snip]

You've got it right, David! As theologian Robert Jenson recently put it,
"...nothing would be more beneficent for the contemporary church than to acquire
some of Luther's fear of mere deity. ...deity is not necessarily a
beneficent predicate, that gods by and large are if not moot then monstrous. Consider
only Moloch the baby-eater..."

Jenson was not speaking of ID but the shoe certainly fits.

Karl
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Karl V. Evans
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Received on Tue Dec 2 20:41:24 2003