Re: [asa] Bloesch on the Fall (was "Adam and the Fall")

Dick Fischer wrote:
>
> ...snip... We don’t ignore the facts of science and history or
> consider them to be malleable and beat them into a shape that fits how
> we interpret the Bible.
>
Imagine that last statement turned on its head to say this:

"We don't ignore the facts of *Scripture* or consider them to be
malleable and beat them into a shape that
fits how we *see science.*"

Actually we have already been using all of our culture (not just
observations of nature) to help us interpret Scriptures for thousands of
years now. Nevertheless, that re-worded statement is exactly the concern
that some of my "hostile-to-science-establishment" friends have. I have
enjoyed recent meetings local to Manhattan Kansas where Keith Miller has
been hosting discussions centering around the video series by Wesley
Ministry Network entitled "Religion and Science: Pathways to Truth." (an
excellent series!) Anyway, about the second or third video in, one
speaker was presenting his ever-so-reasonable arguments related to
dismantling the wall of hostility, and at one point showed a linear
graphic with science at one end, and religion on the other (or words to
that effect), and a stark color contrast between the two that became
blurred as the speaker made his point. Unintended to his point, though,
was that the visual blurring that occurred on screen did not look in
anyway mutual, but showed the science color creeping toward the theology
side becoming much more "dominant", and I remember thinking that my
friends, had they been there, would have immediately picked up on this
irony (which would have, for them, stolen the message!).

To reach across this divide will require a sensitivity and an explicit
acknowledgment that science is not running the show. And yet they are
convinced that it is.

--Merv
P.S. One, referred to above, is excited about the movie "Expelled" and
will loan it to me since I haven't seen it. I know there was extended
discussion over this, so I know what to expect, I think. But it
obviously connected with him. Any distilled wisdoms from that mountain
of posts would be appreciated.

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Received on Sat Nov 15 14:14:52 2008