HTLG: Saving The Evangelical Mind
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posted by Cowboy Dave Dickerson | 7:25 PM
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1 Comments:
Very well and passionately argued!
I would add that creationists also cheat themselves out of the experience of wonder at the intricacies and subtleties of evolution, seen as a tool in God's hand. Your contrast to the evangelical position on astronomy is a good one. Evangelicals aren't (and shouldn't be) theologically threatened by the size of the universe or the theory of relativity or the position of the solar system in the galaxy and so on; they simply attribute all of this grandeur to God. Why doesn't evolution go down as easily?
I think that back during the Scopes trial, one major gut-level problem that not just evangelicals but mainstream society had with evolution was the loss of the pride of body image, of having to swallow the idea of sharing ancestors with apes. But even on this point I think most modern evangelicals believe that being made in the "image of God" should be understood as being made in his psychic, not physical, image. They don't believe that God has a body like ours, and they don't believe that Jesus had his human body before the Incarnation.
The only theological issue is whether the biosphere around us arose spontaneously or was ultimately willed. I do believe this remains an issue of faith, but I don't think that should keep evangelicals from joining the rest of the scientists at the table.
--Derek
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