Re: Cobb County

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:29:25 -0800, "Edward Hassertt"
<ehassertt@mac.com> said:
> Rich Blinne wrote:

> >And now a word from *cough* functional atheist, Charles Hodge. Hodge
> >argues that the facts of nature point to the same God as Scripture does.
> >Thus, you can be study nature qua nature and not be autonomous. There
> >are different classes of facts which science and Scripture best point
> >towards. Presuppositionalism makes enemies out of friends because it
> >makes David (cf. Psalm 19:1) a functional atheist.
> >
> >
> >
> You misread Hodge and DAvid who both subject their view of nature qua
> nature to the authority of scripture, not as independent disciplines
> with no connection to scripture as you declare they should be.
>

This is precisely what I mean by making enemies out of friends. I make
no such claim. Science and theology are not independent disciplines. In
fact, Hodge shows that they are methodologically similar. They just
differ in the domain studied. But, studying the natural domain no more
makes you an atheist than studying Scripture makes you a Christian. So,
if you can help me out by giving me the verse that will tell me what
kinds of defects will most affect semiconductor yields for
dual-damascene 90nm and 65nm processes, I would be much obliged. Or, you
can tell me what natural phenomenon explains the incarnation. Science
and theology are not separate but they can be distinguished. The fact
that atheistic scientists bifurcate the two doesn't not give us license
to conflate them.
Received on Wed Jan 19 17:57:26 2005