Re: [asa] What is Warfare?

I don't consider it a warfare model, provided we take Scripture as "a _part_ of the landscape..." and don't jump to conclusions based on our current understanding of nature or Scripture. This creates conflict over unresolved issues, but conflict if handled correctively can be constructive.

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----- Original Message ----
From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
To: ASA list <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 9:00:08 AM
Subject: [asa] What is Warfare?

Our recent discussion prompted me to look again into Del Ratzch's excellent book "Science and its Limits." Here's a quote from page 158:
 
"Although there is dispute over what is or is not a proper background constituent, prohibitions on Chritians taking what God has said [in scripture] as part of the landscape on which their science is erected surely require justification. And if God has indeed revealed to us truths concerning the world he created, and given that Christians surely want their science to ultimately conform to what God has said, systematically ignoring what he has said also requires justification, to say the least."
Is this a "warfare" model? If not, why not?

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