Comments on: Science and Education #2 http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/ Understanding Science and the Theology of Creation Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:45:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Cliff Martin http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-603 Cliff Martin Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:27:48 +0000 http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-603 Thank you for this post. It is this inability to distinguish between <i>naturalism</i> and <i>materialism</i> that leads many Christians to falsely identify evolution with atheism. You have successfully shown, with simplicity and clarity, why a Christian must reject I.D. because it stifles scientific inquiry. It is so obvious, even to the most ardent I.D. proponents, that God has devised elegant natural mechanisms that account for so much of what we observe. Does it not greatly please the Creator when his children set out to discover the possible natural causes that resulted in the marvelous e. coli flagellum? And when we do finally piece that baffling puzzle together, will it not greatly enhance our awe of his creative genius?!? Thank you for this post. It is this inability to distinguish between naturalism and materialism that leads many Christians to falsely identify evolution with atheism. You have successfully shown, with simplicity and clarity, why a Christian must reject I.D. because it stifles scientific inquiry. It is so obvious, even to the most ardent I.D. proponents, that God has devised elegant natural mechanisms that account for so much of what we observe. Does it not greatly please the Creator when his children set out to discover the possible natural causes that resulted in the marvelous e. coli flagellum? And when we do finally piece that baffling puzzle together, will it not greatly enhance our awe of his creative genius?!?

]]> By: AMW http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-604 AMW Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:12 +0000 http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-604 Good post, Gordon. I concur. I would also add that (as you have pointed out before) Christians are really only (or primarily) made nervous by naturalism in the biological sciences. Medicine, meteorology, physics and the like don't really scare evangelical Christians, even though they assume naturalism just the same as evolutionary biology. Good post, Gordon. I concur.

I would also add that (as you have pointed out before) Christians are really only (or primarily) made nervous by naturalism in the biological sciences. Medicine, meteorology, physics and the like don’t really scare evangelical Christians, even though they assume naturalism just the same as evolutionary biology.

]]> By: GJG http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-605 GJG Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:14:42 +0000 http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-605 Thanks Cliff. I deal with ID very directly later in the series. Stay tuned for that! AMW - You are one step ahead of me! My next topic deals with those very issues. Thanks Cliff. I deal with ID very directly later in the series. Stay tuned for that!

AMW - You are one step ahead of me! My next topic deals with those very issues.

]]> By: Mike Beidler http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-696 Mike Beidler Wed, 14 May 2008 22:23:17 +0000 http://www.blog.beyondthefirmament.com/2008/04/20/science-and-education-2/#comment-696 <i>If Jesus turns water in wine by fiat, then God gets the glory. If a farmer plants a vineyard, waters it, cultivates it, picks the grapes and ferments them in a barrel over many years — well, God still gets the glory for that!</i> Amen, and amen! If Jesus turns water in wine by fiat, then God gets the glory. If a farmer plants a vineyard, waters it, cultivates it, picks the grapes and ferments them in a barrel over many years — well, God still gets the glory for that!

Amen, and amen!

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