Science Versus God in Tennessee: Has Anything Really Changed? | The BioLogos Forum

@TedDavis

The reason why it seems nothing has changed and reading these pages it is true is because we don’t understand the problem. The problem is not bad science as Creationists think or bad theology as many evolutionists think. The problem is bad philosophy which distorts the world views of both science and theology and is very serious because it is creating a serious divide in Western/world culture which could easily destroy the world as we know it.

Scientism, not evolution, is the issue, but Scientism uses Darwinism as the scientific/philosophical basis of its world view. Scientism uses materialistic monism as its basis for understanding reality. People like Stephen Hawking say that philosophy is dead and science must take its place and this is their answer.

This is why Conservative Christians are concerned about science and evolution. Scientism is arguing for a alternative world view that is difficult to refute. Their alternative is often theistic monism based on a legalistic reading of the Bible. This monism is no more correct than materialistic monism., however world view are self affirming.

The third world view is traditional Western dualism, which is better in some ways that monism, but also has many flaws. One of its serious problems is that its proponent really do not defend it, because it is not really intellectually defensible, except as a lesser of two evils.

We still have a very serious problem because neither monism nor dualism works well. I keep suggesting that we at least explore a triune model. What do we have to lose?