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Recent content by thisisciaran

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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    How is it less powerful? The scope of it, the depth of it? To look at how the entire science of biology - founded on the single theory of evolution - has blown open our comprehension of the natural world? It's vast. The incredible scope of God's care and attention, the profound elegance...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    This is a much stronger response. The first thing I'd say is this. Anyone who's mocking anyone is someone who can be safely ignored. It is of course true that huge numbers of Christians - on both sides - rip the other side for being inferior Christians. Creationists are stupid and backward...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    I think there's another thing scripture is given for. I think it's given for blindly nodding along to only the face value of it like it's a wikipedia page. Something is very stark in the way you handle information. And I have to question - is this how you handle all information? Is this what...
  4. thisisciaran

    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    Yes. But I think Genesis has far deeper truth in it than mere cosmology. The question is, what truth? What is God communicating about human nature here? About the relationship we have with Him? With sin? With each other? Because I think the problem with a literal interpretation of Genesis is...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    It's not that you're wrong in what you say, but - with respect - I think there's something about facts that you're missing. Fragments of truth, yes - but how are we selecting those fragments? What are we doing with them? My answer would be that to get facts from truth we eliminate everything...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    Moses didn't teach Darwinism, that is true. Well spotted. And I'll go further - I think Moses truly believed in a 6 day creation. But then, so what? If you're saying that Moses's level of understanding was absolute and final, and there were no revelations that Moses didn't know yet? That is...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    I want to just zero in on your step 2 for a second. Because there's something dramatically different about the way you and I understand that word 'believe'. And perhaps it cuts to the heart of this whole thing. For you - and please tell me if I'm wrong - what it means is that you take the...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    Well, thank you for your kind words. And I hope you won't be too upset with me for picking you up a little on this. Here's my understanding of what you've said. You cannot believe in theistic evolution for one reason. It's the same reason that you will not believe in it. So there's two...
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    How can I comprehend creationism as anything other than a lack of faith?

    I feel there's a deeper level to all of this back and forth about evolution, but it's something very challenging. It's about our basic relationship with truth itself, and it starts from an observation. That observation is this - our comprehension of truth will always stand ready to be...