Re: Cobb County

From: Dick Fischer <dickfischer@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Jan 20 2005 - 01:20:31 EST

Edward Haslett wrote:

Dick Fischer wrote:

Moorad wrote:

>Perhaps nature should be studied in the light of Scripture.

Clearly, this has been what has gotten us into trouble.  Nature needs to stand on its own two feet unimpeded by what we think the Scriptures say.

Well at least after a few weeks of asking questions I get what I was asking for, a statement of where the loyalty of scientists on this list lies.  If nature must stand on its own without scripture, we have a functional atheism that places science above scripture.  Nothing can stand on its own two feet apart from scripture for the Christian since God's revelation is two-fold, the general which leads to many erred results according to scripture (nature), and the specific which is God's very word to man (scripture). 

Just as anyone who can twist my words, as you just did, can certainly twist Scripture, and then try to impose his twisted interpretation on science.  You prove my point.  Science depends on data and evidence to support theories.  Christianity has data and evidence to support it as well.  But you can't accept the data and evidence that supports the elements of our faith and then ignore it in the area of science.

Science is not inherently atheistic.  It needs to be theistically neutral.  If God emerges as a logical conclusion after a careful examination of scientific evidence then we can include divine intervention in scientific theories.  But the starting point needs to be neutrality.

Scripture teaches us what nature says about God, not the other way around.

 Okay, cite your Scripture verses.  How does God act in nature?  Be specific.

Otherwise you open it all up to how we interpret Scripture.  And no one interprets the same.  Can we impose on nature six 24-hour days of creation because God says so? 

So we can impose a evolutionary system on nature because man says so?

As a famous President once said, "There you go again."  Man did not impose anything on nature.  We make observations and logical consistent conclusions based upon those observations.

So you admit, man has authority over GOd and man's view can be imposed on nature, while God's revelation cannot!

Again, you have the Book.  Give us chapter and verse.  How did God cause mammals to evolve from reptiles?

Dick Fischer  - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
Received on Thu Jan 20 01:21:39 2005