>>> "David Opderbeck" <dopderbeck@gmail.com> 6/5/2008 10:38 AM >>> says,
among other things:
Yet, I would still argue that we can and should have a "Christian
embryology." What makes it "Christian" is not how we understand the
physical process of development to work. Rather, it is how we understand
the ontological status of the thing that is developing -- a human being,
something that is made in the image of God and that will become a
responsible agent before God. This has to *radically* affect how we think
about what a fetus "is."
***
Ted comments:
I agree with the rest of the paragraph, but not precisely with the first
sentence, David. I would prefer to say this: We should have a Christian
view of embryology, just as we should have a Christian view of biology in
the broader sense and of origins. And of you-fill-in-the-blank. I often
make this precise distinction, b/c IMO a "Christian biology" is too easily
collapsed into an unscientific creationism, whereas a Christian view of
biology is a horse of a different color.
Ted
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