Re: [asa] Europe's Scientific Search for God

One brief but useful reply to the topic in general by Christian philosopher Michael Murray is at

http://server1.fandm.edu/Departments/Philosophy/staticpages/Murray/Four%20Args%20Hawaii%20volume.pdf

Ultimately it's an interesting scientific topic but tells us nothing about the validity (or not) of our beliefs.? So what if evolution resulted in our minds having a "god-space" or some such metaphor.? Isn't that pretty much what Augustine concluded on other evidence?? God can and usually does use secondary means to accomplish the primary goal.

Karl?? [ASA member]
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Karl V. Evans
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
To: ASA <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:00 am
Subject: [asa] Europe's Scientific Search for God

Here's the lead article in The Economist, which describes the "Explaining Religion" project:? http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10903480&top_story=1? This project is designed to probe the evolutionary bases for religious belief.

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What do folks thing of the validity of such projects?? What is an appropriate response from a Christian perspective?

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One thing that strikes me is that the title "Explaining Religion" displays more than a little hubris.?

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology 
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