RE: On being a noncombatant in the culture wars

"Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." Genesis 2:7.

Christian theology has been instrumental in the development of modern science and the study, so far, of the physical, viz. "dust." Can we encompass life and so the "breath" of God into our scientific theories?

 
Moorad

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Subject: Re: On being a noncombatant in the culture wars

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        MN says we can explain the development of life without any reference to God. A non-deistic TE position, however, says no, we can't do any such thing. The Truth in a non-deistic TE view is that God sovereignly directed evolution. .........................
         
        Non-deistic TE positions do not necessarily say that we can't explain the development of life without reference to God. I'll offer my own very non-deistic approach as an example. I grant the possibility that the origin of life is something we can't explain in terms of natural processes. Again, MN is a statement about the limits of science, not an assertion that everything can be explained in natural terms. But there is no theological reason to think that the origin of life cannot be so explained, & good theological reasons to think that appeals to miraculous explanations of phenomena be kept to a minimum.
         
        
        Shalom
        George
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Received on Sat Mar 4 13:53:21 2006