Re: Golden Age (was Re: [asa] Humanity and the Fall: Questions and a Survey)

Burgy said: In a word -- no. In two words -- absolutely no.

I respond: I'd like to think you're right Burgy. Maybe it depends on what
one means by "traditional." Certainly evolution challenges traditional
views of scripture and the fall, if nothing else.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:37 PM, j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/6/08, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> > George said: You can move a bit & give serious consideration to
> > accomodation & an incarnational understanding of scripture, try to
> > face scientific realities seriously - & then you come to a point where
> > it goes "sproing" & you're back at the same old same old. New
> > wine has to go in new wineskins.
> >
> > I respond: you are right, and it's refreshing to hear this. Doesn't
> > anyone who wants to really accept the findings of the natural sciences
> > have to give up being a traditional evangelical Christian? Isn't all
> > the rhetoric about the complementarity of faith and science only true
> > if one gives up many traditional Christian beliefs?
>
> In a word -- no.
>
> In two words -- absolutely no.
>
> Burgy
>

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