*spaf*

[rone]

"Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science." (via tnr_feed)

Today must be Opposite Day, or something.  I just can't make my brain bend that way.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You made me look him up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Behe)... man, that irreducible complexity thing, what a crackpot theory that is. Was it you who brought up the God gap recently?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

"God of the gaps", maybe-- the idea that anything we can't currently explain is evidence that God directly intervened. The problem being that as science progresses your God's job description keeps shrinking.

So most theologians who are not stupid tend to reject that idea, and see God's hand in the workings of the world-as-it-is, natural forces or no. I don't believe this, but I have no big problems with other people believing it, though that itself raises hard questions about divine justice and benevolence.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yep, "God of the gaps," that's the one.

I think that a minimum of thought can lead a theist to see that science lets us know how God created us. To get as close as possible to his methods should bring more glory to God. Or maybe i'm just a deist sympathizer.

Divine justice, benevolence... ha. Just ha.