Re: [asa] Saving Darwin: What theological changes are required?

David,

I would hate for anyone to think that I'm belittling the important
questions that are being asked. You didn't say "I don't know", which
is of course epistemologically true. You said that "As 'people,'
there comes a point at which we simply cannot figure everything out",
and spoke of "present human limitations". Present human limitations
have continually become new human opportunities because people have
not shrunk back from the blank places on the maps of human knowledge.
I was not saying I know the answers, I was saying "don't allow the
fact that we are heading into uncertain waters cause us to scuttle
back to the shore of old horizons". I think this whole discussion
will be laughed at in future generations because our "human
limitations" will have by then by surpassed and the things "we cannot
know" will be discovered, proven, and archived.
Where did the problem of evil come into this discussion? I was under
the impression we were talking about the historicity of Adam and Eve,
the fall, and the reality of the imago dei?

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:07 AM, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, they're more than "single-paragraph musings," they're a summary of his
> thesis. Your two questions here are good ones, and I don't presume to have
> a great answer for them. All I can say is that, if being a "TE" or "making
> peace with Darwin" means accepting all three of Giberson's propositions as
> mandatory -- and I don't think I'm overreacting to the term "must" -- then
> Re: Beth's "the classic abdication of responsibility": oh, puhleeze. You
> have no idea how I've struggled to understand these questions, and I think
> lots of other people have as well. "I don't know" isn't an abdication of
> responsibility, it's an acknowledgment of human limitations. Do you presume
> to know the answer to the problem of evil? If you do, please explain it --
> if not, just admit that there are some things you don't know along with the
> rest of us responsibility-abdicating mortals.

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Received on Mon Jun 9 15:19:49 2008