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At Peace With Science? (RJS)

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RJS, a scientist at a first-rate University, has been doing a series on science and faith on Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog. Her installment today is a good one. Here is an excerpt from At Peace With Science? (RJS)

… In the opening of his lecture of  24/7/2008 Dr. Falk relates his experience speaking in his defense. He gave his personal testimony of faith, presented the testimony of former students in his defense, and related the beauty of the evolutionary mechanism of God's creation. All went well, a standing ovation even, until the President of the University opened the floor for questions and the question of human evolution was raised. When Dr. Falk defended human evolution and common descent the change in mood was immediate and palpable. This was neither surprising nor unexpected. Many in evangelical circles are open to the possibility that evolution was God's general method of creation – yet will retain the necessity for the special creation of Human Beings through an original pair, Adam and Eve.

The important question today is just this: Is the Christian story, the Christian faith tied to the special creation of mankind separate from all the animals or is it tied to creation in the image of God? What gives mankind a soul, an identity created in the image of God? …

Good stuff! Check it out.

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  1. John Avatar
    John

    One of the most destructive delusions that Christianity has bequeathed to all of Earth-kind is the notion that human beings are separate from the rest of “creation”—or that “creation” is entirely other.
    http://www.dabase.org/embrace.htm
    http://www.fearnomorezoo.org/literature/observe_learn.php
    And that we are separate from each other, and separate from The Divine Conscious Light.
    Even to talk about “creation” as something other to humankind is to confess to being entirely godless.
    It is to create a deadly split in ones heart and being-consciousness. Which is then inevitably projected on to the world at large, and thus dramatised in historical time as ever widening circles of violence—as an all encompassing scapegoat cult.
    Thus inevitably creating the situation described in these references and website.
    http://www.ispeace723.org/gcfprinciples2.html
    http://www.ispeace723.org/liberationfromego2.html

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  2. Michael W. Kruse Avatar
    Michael W. Kruse

    Thanks for your thoughts, John.
    There has been a dualism that developed within Christianity that I believe has more to do with Greek influences than the what the scriptures actually teach. We are inextricably part of nature and we were created for material world. I believe that the biblical image is of humanity one day living a material existence in a an altered material existence.
    That said, we are in God’s image, and in that sense, we are also other than nature.
    I will not surrender to either notion that we are mere products of nature or that nature is totally other and ours to do with as we please.

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