Re: [asa] Science as Christian vocation

Interesting. I think one of the issues the church has with evolution and TE is because they don't want to accept the seemingly harsh and cruel concept of survival of the fittest. But if this was God's mechanism of creating life in the animal world, how do we then bridge the gap to the sanctity of life in humans?

This opens a tremendus can of worms, not only eugenics but abortion, human relief etc. What is the stopgap to prevent the logical progression to the liberal theology of Schmucker?

Thanks

John

--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:

> From: Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu>
> Subject: [asa] Science as Christian vocation
> To: asa@lists.calvin.edu
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8:44 AM
> For the past few years, I've been researching the
> religious lives & beliefs
> of several prominent American scientists from the Scopes
> trial era. The
> latest issue of "Seminary Ridge Review,"
> published by the Lutheran
> Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, contains one of these:
> a study of how S
> C Schmucker, a leading popularizer of evolution and
> eugenics, made science
> education his Christian vocation. I hardly share his very,
> very liberal
> theology, any more than I share his views on eugenics --
> which I believe
> were closely connected. The essay is now available online,
> at the journal's
> web site.
>
> http://www.ltsg.edu//db/review.htm?issid=23
>
> Given the range of Schmucker's activities and the
> nature of his theological
> views, perhaps this article would be good to discuss here?
>
>
> Ted
>
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Received on Wed Feb 4 09:24:08 2009