Let’s try changing the title: “Reconciling Faith with Evolution.”
[In that title, can we assume that “Faith” actually means “Christian Faith?” My mind is too small for all faiths.]
Does it mean better? Does it work? Is there anything for any of us to work with?
What do you see as possible with this?
Aye, I’m a Christian faith chauvinist too. But that is the broadest church. Best case Christian faith is certainly the most evolution, as a subset of eternal nature, friendly.
I take it the better and work questions can be taken as one?
I can make faith work by not distorting truth. I can make it fit around reality. By faith. No problem. Except that that’s all that’s left. Faith, the substance of things hoped for. Desired. Pruned of… all other stuff we make up.
…which is why St. Puddleglum is my patron.
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Thank you for this.
I think most of us are trying to do this with greater or lesser success, using finer or sloppier tools.
We do the best with what we’ve got.
Even the folks who named the podcast.
It’s good to be around people who reject (and won’t tolerate) enforced intellectual/spiritual schizophrenia, even if we don’t always agree on the details or vary in our processing speeds.
Thanks for being willing to graciouly share your perspective.
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You’re too kind Kendel. I’m afraid that I’m more blunt than I should want to be.
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My kids loved Dino Dan, the precursor. And they were exposed to good, Canadian accents and culture! Come to think of it, it features the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and I think @DOL isn’t far from there (about 3 hours).
In that case, thanks for taking it easy on me.
“fear and trembling […] emotional and religious tensions […] understand the science of evolution while retaining - even bolstering their faith.”
This viewpoint assumes that there is a contradiction between the Christian faith and Science. There is not. Christianity is founded on historical fact (including eyewitness testimony); Science is founded on empiricism, direct observation. The Creator of the universe is coherent and honest and knows how He made everything that exists, so what we observe in Nature will accord with what He has revealed in Scripture.
What do we observe in Nature? Life arises from only the same kind of Life (or its programs) and never from non-life. Random, natural mutations act within the limits set by an organism’s genetic code and never result in newer and more complex genetic program, structure, and function. Cells, the basic units of Life, arise from only other cells. And program comes only from programmers (or their programs).
Whom do these facts better support, Moses or Darwin?
Ask Stanley Miller and Harold Urey; for all their efforts to show that Darwin’s creation theory was even possible, nothing. And Richard Lenski? After decades and thousands of generations, his bacteria were still just bacteria.
“Evolution” is nothing more than atheistic naturalism, a “religious” opinion (in the most antiempirical sense of the word). It’s Gaia in a lab coat. Not Science but science fiction.