Re: [asa] E.O. Wilson "Baptist No More"

Wilson is "without excuse" as is everyone else and he made it clear his rejection of the gospel was as much due to his ragng hormones as much as the cognitive dissonance of the church. But we have seen an example of even modern day creationist Baptist churches in AL where he was raised and they will be responsible for putting this stumbling block in front of him when they shouldn't have.

And as was so aptly brought out, Wilson's idolatry of evolution blinded him to the truth that he might have found otherwise even despite his hormones and creationist influences.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: David Opderbeck
To: John Walley
Cc: _American Sci Affil
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] E.O. Wilson "Baptist No More"

I suppose the point here is that the Church was at fault for not giving Wilson other options. Perhaps there is a fair point there given the particulars of Wilson's upbringing. But what if Wilson's response had been to continually ask God to help him better understand the truth. Would Wilson then have found organizations like the ASA that existed at the time? Would he have found friends and mentors to help him work through the questions everyone faces when they grow out of a childish fundamentalism into a more mature faith? Would he have felt freer to question some aspects of "evolution" as a metanarrative while at the same time broadening his understanding of theology and scripture? In short, do we really have to buy hook, line and sinker the story: "Church: bad; Wilson: innocent?"
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Received on Tue Nov 27 15:58:59 2007