Re: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3

At 08:47 AM 12/11/2007, mlucid@aol.com wrote:

"It is Creation that is source of what is rational in humans. After
millions of years of instinctive responses to Creation (our
environment) we began to evolve (be created in more of the image of
God) a response that is called condition response and it is Creation
that does the conditioning ultimately causing us to reason by merit
of the immanence of God instead of just feel." -Mike (Friend of ASA)

@ A "purposeful" creation, huh?

But the claim that evolution is purposeful (intelligently
designed) is in conflict with modern day evolutionary theory, is it not?

In line with (seemingly) some on this list, many claim that religions
have not successfully created a theology which allows for the role of
God in the world and yet is also fully compatible with modern day
evolutionary theory. Troster maintains that the solution to resolving
the tension between classical theology and modern science can be
found in process theology, such as in the writings of Hans Jonas,
whose view of an evolving God within process philosophy contains no
inherent contradictions between theism and scientific
naturalism. (Lecture God after Darwin: Evolution and the Order of
Creation October 21, 2004, Lishmah, New York City, Larry Troster

In a paper on Judaism and environmentalism, Troster writes:
Jonas is the only Jewish philosopher who has fully integrated
philosophy, science, theology and environmental ethics. He maintained
that humans have a special place in Creation, manifest in the concept
that humans are created in the image of God. His philosophy is very
similar to that of Alfred North Whitehead, who believed that God is
not static but dynamic, in a continual process of becoming as the
universe evolves.
(Apologetics to New Spirituality: Trends in Jewish Environmental
Theology, Lawrence Troster)
~ Janice

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net>
>To: mlucid@aol.com
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Sent: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 3:51 pm
>Subject: Re: [asa] Original Sin and Genesis 3
>
>At 04:32 PM 12/9/2007, <mailto:mlucid@aol.com>mlucid@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Seems to me to be fairly obvious that the Fall of man depicts the
>>rise of reason in humans. ...After the conditioned response became
>>massively developed and perceptively dominant in humans over our
>>instinct, reason emerged. ... -Mike (Friend of ASA)
>
>
>@ Don't we know from science that matter is irrational. That means
>that it does not possess rationality and cannot think and reason.
>Now when we look at the world around us, it seems that so many
>species like humans can think and reason and possess rationality.
>Now if Hume is right and water doesn't rise higher than its source
>and an effect can't be greater than its cause, how do you get
>rationality from irrationality?"
>
>~ Janice
>
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