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-1990 22:50:06.39
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To add fuel to a fire - and a response to Tom Faller's posting on
creationism:
I often suspect that creation vs. evolution is a test for
ideological purity in fundamental traditions.
I did appreciate Steven Grimes remarks about the c/e controversy. The
literal truth of scriptures lies in what they reveal about their
author - God. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth,
that he ensouled man and woman, that he gave us the power to choose
between "good fruit" and "bad fruit", etc. I would, if given the grace,
surrender my life for theses beliefs. In many ways, I have - in
tyring to live in Christ. On the other hand, I wouldn't hand over
my life as a witness that the "fruit" really was an apple - or even that
if was really a piece of fruit.
I don't feel the same way about scientific 'beliefs'. I have no faith
in them. I use the models which we can create via rational thought. I
delight in the discovery of the riches which God has left for us to
explore, but these are not thing which I have given my life for.
I have sent Matt mail about his sensitive reply to my query about the
reasons behind the c/e furor and to Kurt as well - but I will add
for the viewing public that I am reasonably well aquauinted with the
scientific method having a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry. I having
been a practicing Catholic all my life - and therefore an heir to
a long Christian tradition. I am in my second year of theological
studies at the seminary, so I am not ignorant of matters related to
belief either.
Michelle