{"id":1077,"date":"2008-02-07T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/the-evolution-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T21:16:48","slug":"the-evolution-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/the-evolution-of-faith","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Collins, a geneti\u00adcist who strong\u00adly believes in Christ, lec\u00adtured on \u201cGod and the Genome\u201d<\/a> ear\u00adli\u00ader this week. As a geneti\u00adcist, he strong\u00adly believes in evo\u00adlu\u00adtion. Watch\u00ading the Chris\u00adtians on cam\u00adpus respond to his pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion has been fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading.<\/p>\n

A few thoughts:<\/p>\n

1) I real\u00adly wish Chris\u00adtians on all sides of this debate would real\u00adize that oth\u00aders are doing the best that they can with the knowl\u00adedge that they have. As they update their knowl\u00adedge, they update their views. For the most part, peo\u00adple on all sides real\u00adly do love God and truth. In Philip\u00adpi\u00adans 1:18 Paul makes the point that he even gives thanks for false teach\u00aders: \u201cBut what does it mat\u00adter? The impor\u00adtant thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.\u201d In like man\u00adner, learn to rejoice in those who dif\u00adfer from you on this issue.<\/p>\n

2) On the Bible side of things, I wish more Chris\u00adtians knew just how many dif\u00adfer\u00adent options there are for inter\u00adpret\u00ading Gen\u00ade\u00adsis 1 \u2014 google for \u201cFrame\u00adwork Inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion\u201d, \u201cGap The\u00ado\u00adry\u201d, \u201cDay-Age View\u201d, and \u201cThe\u00adis\u00adtic Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u201d to get start\u00aded. In the end you\u2019ll like\u00adly con\u00adclude that some of the options are fair\u00adly implau\u00adsi\u00adble, but they are all worth con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading. For the record, I\u2019m fond of the Frame\u00adwork Inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion. The idea that Gen\u00ade\u00adsis 1 might not be a chronol\u00ado\u00adgy of cre\u00adation isn\u2019t some sort of knee-jerk reac\u00adtion to Dar\u00adwin\u00adian ideas. Way back in the 4th cen\u00adtu\u00adry Augus\u00adtine was look\u00ading at the text and say\u00ading, \u201cSome\u00adthing com\u00adplex is going on here.\u201d For a good sum\u00adma\u00adry of Augustine\u2019s per\u00adspec\u00adtive, read The Con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary Rel\u00ade\u00advance of Augus\u00adtine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) On the sci\u00adence side of things, I wish more Chris\u00adtians were open to the idea that sci\u00aden\u00adtists have good rea\u00adsons for the things that they say. There is no vast anti-Bible con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy. Sci\u00aden\u00adtists are look\u00ading at reams of data and try\u00ading to syn\u00adthe\u00adsize it rea\u00adson\u00adably. That does\u00adn\u2019t imply that every sin\u00adgle claim sci\u00adence makes is proven true in the long run, but it does mean that we should take sci\u00aden\u00adtists very seri\u00adous\u00adly when they tell us there is over\u00adwhelm\u00ading evi\u00addence that the earth is bil\u00adlions of years old and when we dis\u00adcov\u00ader that there has been con\u00adsen\u00adsus with\u00adin the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty about this for a while now. If you\u2019d like to do a lit\u00adtle more dig\u00adging on the sci\u00adence side, these three web\u00adsites are pret\u00adty good places to start: Sci\u00adBel<\/a> <\/p>\n

down\u00adload the defi\u00adant ones dvd<\/a><\/div>\n

is a fun lit\u00adtle web\u00adsite with engag\u00ading arti\u00adcles, the Fara\u00adday Insti\u00adtute<\/a> <\/p>\n

down\u00adload the pok\u00ader club online<\/a><\/div>\n

legal\u00adly blondes online<\/a><\/p>\n

has some short but stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading papers on essen\u00adtial top\u00adics, and the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a> has a huge col\u00adlec\u00adtion of arti\u00adcles from a vari\u00adety of per\u00adspec\u00adtives.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll wind this down by quot\u00ading from an email I sent to my stu\u00addents last night.<\/p>\n

\n1) There are two sources of data for Chris\u00adtians \u2014 the Word and the world.
\n2) Facts from the two realms don\u2019t con\u00adtra\u00addict one anoth\u00ader, but the inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions we use to arrange those facts often do.
\n3) We\u2019ve almost always got more inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtive options than we real\u00adize (this is true of both sources of data).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while I\u2019m talk\u00ading about sci\u00adence and faith, I\u2019d like to rec\u00adom\u00admend an arti\u00adcle about Galileo\u2019s dis\u00adpute with the church. The full sto\u00adry is some\u00adthing you\u2019ve like\u00adly not heard before: The Myth of Galileo<\/a> down\u00adload dia\u00admond dogs dvd<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Collins, a geneti\u00adcist who strong\u00adly believes in Christ, lec\u00adtured on \u201cGod and the Genome\u201d ear\u00adli\u00ader this week. As a geneti\u00adcist, he strong\u00adly believes in evo\u00adlu\u00adtion. Watch\u00ading the Chris\u00adtians on cam\u00adpus respond to his pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion has been fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading. A few thoughts: 1) I real\u00adly wish Chris\u00adtians on all sides of this debate would real\u00adize that \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThe Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of Faith\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}