tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729636300291249876.post6085885144361345063..comments2023-05-09T10:03:04.009+01:00Comments on Obscene Beauty: On Origins, Creation & Intelligent Design [updated 02/02/07]Alastairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05209977342876131154noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729636300291249876.post-10839423203071326282007-01-23T16:24:00.000+00:002007-01-23T16:24:00.000+00:00Your link to "God, Humanity & Cosmos" produced som...Your link to "God, Humanity & Cosmos" produced some interesting reading. In particular, its a very good summary on a lot of history of the science-faith debate, in with particular attention paid to quantum theory, big-bang cosmology, and evolutionary theory.<br /><br />However, I do detect something of a liberal slant on the site. For example, consider the statement below:<br /><br />"The need to move away from the historical Fall has been strongly emphasised by the scientist-theologians.See for example Polkinghorne, J, Reason and Reality (London: SPCK, 1991) pp99-104, Peacocke, A, Theology for a Scientific Age (London: SCM Press, 1993 expanded edn) pp222f.Peacocke takes the argument in a helpful direction when, drawing on his idea that relationship with God and right perception of our environment represent the highest-level ‘emergent’ in the biological hierarchy, he argues that humans’ ecological niche includes a right relationship with God, which for all sorts of reasons - some genetic, some cultural, some as mysterious as the appearance of evil in Gen.3 - continues to elude us."<br /><br />Note entirely sure what such a viewpoint does to one's theology of the Cross!<br /><br />However, it does bring up the an interesting point about the fall (no scientific evidence for it whatsoever), which would be worth debating in detail at some point.<br /><br />Another part of the site stresses that they don't seem to believe in a soul or spirit: certainly they don't see it helpful to talk about such things. I think this is giving away too much to the prevailing world-view of materialism. Disappointing, given the obvious exposure to quantum mechanics the author(s) have. I may cover this in another post (evidence for the soul).Alastairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05209977342876131154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729636300291249876.post-13658410064145687732007-01-22T19:37:00.000+00:002007-01-22T19:37:00.000+00:00Check out this very helpful website on the science...Check out this very helpful website on the science/theology debate:<br />http://www.meta-library.net/ghc/index-topics.html<br /><br />Cheers<br />PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1729636300291249876.post-80182105132970423492007-01-19T14:43:00.000+00:002007-01-19T14:43:00.000+00:00Cool, this is very helpful Albo - it'll let me get...Cool, this is very helpful Albo - it'll let me get to grips with this stuff over the next few weeks. Can you do the same with ethics? Remember the categories based around the concept of graded absolutist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com