Re: science & theology, part 1 resend

Thanks Bill. I tried to reply privately but the reply thing wouldn't work. (I am not as skilled on the computer as some of my compatriots.) I have a rule never to open anything unless I know what it is and an attachment unless it is from someone I know of AND the subject fits. That is to avoid viruses.

Anyway I like what you say.

Two comments;
1. The recent Worldview movement if I can call it that often grossly simplifies matters often forcing one to choose between a secular scientific WV and the biblical WV - the latter tends to be anti-evolutionary in any sense. I am wary of the whole Worldview approach, though I consider myself to have a Christian worldview -with some inconsistencies.

God of the Gaps. I can think of very view examples from the past, but it is as you say how we Christians are perceived as. (Are there any lurkers who would like to comment on this, as I feel this is one of the things which causes misunderstanding over "Creation/Evolution"?) I do agree that many Christians adopt it as a default position without thinking and then concluding that scientific explanations mean God did not do it. It is also one of my criticisms of ID e.g. Behe over blood clotting and haemoglobin, with the former designed but not the latter. Thus today when I peddled up several steep hills in the Lake District I could not thank God for designing my aerobic aspects of physiology. Now when I descended hills at over 30 mph, if I had come off then design would have come into play as my wounds began to clot!! (I develop this in my 1999PSCF article along with the design of glaciers.

Michael
   
Received on Sat Mar 12 16:28:52 2005