Re: have we forgotten who the enemy is?

Dick Fisher wrote:

"However, due to the misguided, protracted efforts of
creationist organizations, the Bible is being tied to an
errant interpretation. Abusing science in the process,
they then foist the entire package on the 'willingly
ignorant.'"

I assume you are talking about YEC here, is that the case?
 This is a problem admittedly, but this is not a problem
caused by ID as far as I can tell. I am not sure how much
harder this makes our job, because any scientfically
minded skeptic would already have dismissed the "abused
science" of creationism. As far as this effect on our
fellow Christians who have been taught this misguided
notion of science, well that is unfortunate, but how
important is it really, as long as they understand and
accept the Gospel?

"So what does TE contribute to the problem of
resolving Bible-science conflict?"

It at least gets us in the door. If we can show to a
nonbeiliving scientist that there is design in the
universe, that you cant have this universe as it is, you
cant have humans as they are, without a designer, then you
can at least get them to the point that Christianity is
possible. After they are at least theists, then it is the
Gospel that has to do the work from there.

"He doesn't need to "intervene" in His own
creation. It is His creation from the get go. How closely
or intimately He supervises the process by which the
creation unfolds is the issue."

If by intervening you mean God acting outside of normal
physical laws, then he has to intervene from time to time,
in order for the Bible to be true. If you dont want to
accept any other miracle that is in the Bible, you have to
accept that there was a supernatural resurrection of
Christ in order to be Christian. Without that,
Christianity is meaningless.
Received on Wed Feb 16 12:12:47 2005