So why do so many use the story of the boat as evidence that the Faithful are wrong?
To all the intelligent-design bashers out there, ... try this on: Science and Religion ARE NOT mutually exclusive! Isn't it possible that it was written down as people understood the story ... within the context they wrote it, ... and as it made sense to them in their time? Our deepening (scientific) understandings of the universe and humanity do nothing but lead us to the same conclusion: The story is much, much bigger than our science alone can handle.
So please dismount your high-horse, tie it to the post (next to mine), and let's all drink from the same watering hole, ... acknowledging God and Science simultaneously.
To all the intelligent-design bashers out there, ... try this on: Science and Religion ARE NOT mutually exclusive! Isn't it possible that it was written down as people understood the story ... within the context they wrote it, ... and as it made sense to them in their time? Our deepening (scientific) understandings of the universe and humanity do nothing but lead us to the same conclusion: The story is much, much bigger than our science alone can handle.
So please dismount your high-horse, tie it to the post (next to mine), and let's all drink from the same watering hole, ... acknowledging God and Science simultaneously.
3 comments:
Amen, brother! ;-)
the problem is that sometimes science and religion are mutually exclusive.
science cannot prove/disprove the supernatural since it only works in and with the natural world.
the supernatural does not demand (and i argue does not wish) to be proven so that people may believe. attempts to demystify God and her/his actions and interactions actually hurt faith.
faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (Heb. 11:1 NRSV). when we, through the valuable discipline of science, remove the "hoped for" and "not seen" from faith, we lose the inherent beauty of it. all of a sudden we are trusting in our own ability to explain and rationalize God. what happens when a new scientific discovery completely undercuts former studies upon which we now base our belief (notice belief and faith are different things)? we either 1)shift our belief to the new evidence and rework our biblical interpretations based upon scientific discoveries, 2)resist the change and label all adherents heretics, or 3)completely abandon belief in the supernatural.
there is nothing wrong with loving God's creation so much that we want to discover all of the intricacies of how it all works. there is something wrong when we use those discoveries, which can change daily, as a foundation for faith.
intelligent design adherents are simply the group who chose the first option. young earth creationists chose the second. and those who formerly based their belief on the 100% inerrancy of scripture (including in the areas of science and history as well as theology) and were crushed to discover that the bible is not a science nor history book tend to choose the third.
Mike, Stu said this is very cool!
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