Re: [asa] a theological exercise - peripherals

I'm late in this discussion and haven't read all that went before,
but...

Embryology IS Christian embryology in as much as it reflects God's
world.

I don't know if this is exactly what Ted is saying, but the notion of
common grace and the common operation of the Holy Spirit and a
doctrine of Creation, etc. suggests that truth "after a fashion" (to
use C. Van Til's words) are accessible to all--not just believers.
Understanding the relationship of things to the Creator and His word
are essential for grasping Truth in an ultimate sense.

I don't think that this denies the gist of David's point about the
ontological status of the human embryo needing to be part of a
embryological science.

TG

On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Ted Davis wrote:

>>>> "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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