tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11404995.post112205006032772786..comments2023-12-12T04:32:09.269-05:00Comments on BaptizedPagan: Follow up on SchoernbornBaptizedPaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03687989094914082292noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11404995.post-1123252737047306332005-08-05T10:38:00.000-04:002005-08-05T10:38:00.000-04:00It seems reasonable that if we can't use science t...It seems reasonable that if we can't use science to provide a buttress for the existence of God (as many of my friends in the evangelical world see it), we can't do the obverse. God's lack of existence can't be derived from science.<BR/><BR/>This is one reason that it's too bad that evangelicals and fundamentalists are some of the loudest voices in American religion today. As Alan Wolfe and others have documented, evangelicals have only begun to develop an intellectual apparatus whereby they can engage with others on terms that don't require buying into the evangelical worldview from the beginning. Catholics have 1800 years and Aquinas on them, and other Protestants have at least 300 years of a head start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11404995.post-1123110078501414812005-08-03T19:01:00.000-04:002005-08-03T19:01:00.000-04:00I agree that the distinction between evolution as ...I agree that the distinction between evolution as atheistic ideology (Richard Dawkins) and evolution as genuine science is an important one, both for theological and pastoral reasons. Theologically the Catholic church is in a good position to claim evolution as both scientific fact and human reality - i.e. that God's creation is an open one and that the natural order functions with such elegance and wisdom because God wills it to be so. Pastorally by laying claim to the theory of evolution the church can lead the opposition against fundamentalism (as it always should) and assuage Christians who feel threatened by atheists like Dawkins that the truth is always for us.weazoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948156533505083810noreply@blogger.com