``Well, I blame Francis Bacon. I know, I know: one can talk of Christianity’s “desacralization” of creation, or of the Enlightenment having delivered humanity from the terrors of the “demon-haunted world,” but all of that is misleading.''
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlondinow have recently published the “The Grand Design,” which has reignited the fires of the faith and science debate. Many worth commentators have responded.
Stephen M. Barr brings us Much
Ado About “Nothing”: Stephen Hawking and the Self-Creating Universe
Philip Clayton brings us Is Stephen Hawking Right About God?
Chuck Colson brings us Stephen Hawking’s Leap of Faith: Unnecessary Science.
Karl Giberson brings us Hawking’s Speculation: Everything Happens.
Alister McGrath brings us Stephen Hawking, God, and the Role of Science.
Hugh Ross brings us Hawking’s view violates scientific principle.
Alister McGrath, and Hugh Ross are scheduled speakers for the Vibrant Dance Symposium.
Ben Witherington may be better known as a professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. But at his Beliefnet blog, he demonstrates other aspects. Today Ben posted a poem that struck me in these days of planning for the Vibrant Dance Symposium.
There is no unmoved Mover
Who set the stars a-spin
And crawled back into heaven
Never seen again.There is no old Watchmaker
Who wound all things up tight
And then retreated quietly
Removed from thought or sight.
Hunter Baker posted an interesting question on the First Things’ Evangel blog and at Touchstone’s Mere Comments’ blog. Both have interesting answers.
"Evangelicals spend a lot of time fighting about Genesis and the proper interpretation thereof. Catholics spend a lot less time on it for reasons which are not fully clear to me. …
What I am curious about and would like to see discussion of here at this blog is …"
read the answers at Evangel and Mere Comments
Darrel Falk recently responded to atheist critics of their work
"I’ve thought a lot about Jerry Coyne’s recent post entitled “BioLogos Gets in Bed with the Fundies.” Jerry is highly critical of us for co-sponsoring an upcoming conference called Vibrant Dance of Faith and Science. It’s not that I particularly care about an atheist’s view of BioLogos’s activities. After all, we—Christians and atheists—live in two different worlds. …"
The best-selling author and Christian apologist Dinesh D’Souza has been selected as the new president of the King’s College, a small Christian institution located in the Empire State Building.
One of the great questions confronting materialism is consciousness. David Bentley Hart has a new article on consciousness on the First Things site.
And the profoundest mystery of consciousness is consciousness itself, because we really have little or no clear idea what it is, or how it could either arise from or ally itself to the material mechanisms of the brain. …
William Dembski, at the blog Uncommon Descent, mentions the Vibrant Dance.
An interesting conference bringing together ID proponents and theistic evolutionists is coming up in Austin this October.
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Many years ago I read a book by Mark Noll titled, “Evolution, Scripture, and Science.” This book, presented the complexity of the science question in the ‘Princeton Theology.’
Themelios magazine has an article worth reading on Warfield’s views.
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