Sunday Morning: The New Theology
The Chicago Tribune has a major article on a theological movement to re-imagine God in the light of the discoveries of science:
The article describes a correspondence between Brown university biologist Kenneth Miller and Amish carpenter Lamar Schlabach, University Of Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne’s “colorful” de-conversion story, and others.
“If your faith requires supernaturalism, or a God who wields overpowering control over nature, then yes, evolution will challenge that,” says Van Till, who took early retirement from Calvin College in 1999.“The key is to correct your portrait of God,” he says.
Let me get the popcorn: the letters to the Trib’s editor will be stuffed with responses to this article for weeks to come. It is an interesting article however. I suggest using the “print” link to print it out for easier reading as it is quite lengthy.
What do you think? Imagine two centuries from now, will Christianity adapt to science? Or…?
Maybe..Christianity has evolved to a nearly civilized religion..a far cry from a few hundred years ago when heretics were burned and witches hung and those who were blasphemous were fine, whipped, or put in stocks. Of course the secular forces in the New World had a lot to do with this..and Europe followed suit. But there are still some who would change the constitution to align it with their ideas of what god wants…and it is just a short step from there to burning heretics again.
But I have my doubts that the shamans will allow their followers to accept scientific logic..see, once a congregation starts to think for themselves they soon understand that the Holy Book and what it teaches is based on circular logic..and the shamans can’t keep control of a flock that thinks for itself..