Beyond the Firmament: Understanding Science and the Theology of CreationAs debates within the Church over the scientific details of creation become more frequent, the experts seem to grow more entrenched while the rest of us only become more confused. Somewhere between the endless arguments over distant starlight and Carbon-14 dating, calculating the mathematical improbabilities of things that already exist, and parsing ancient Hebrew and Greek, somebody needs to ask the simple question, If 3,500 years of scientific progress can't help modern Christians figure out Genesis, then how could the ancient Israelities possibly have understood it so well? What secret did this newly liberated gaggle of Hebrew nomads take with them out of Egypt that holds the key to understanding God's telling of His own creation story? Beyond the Firmament challenges all creationist camps --whether Young-Earth, Old-Earth, or Theistic Evolutionist -- to step outside of traditional paradigms and recognize how our modern, Western, post-Enlightenment scientific worldview actually blinds us from seeing the simple truth of Creation as it was originally intended, and how our failure to grasp the theological significance of the Biblical creation model puts science and faith on a collision course. |
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ment (modern) worldview demands that His involvement with the cosmos be very limited. The current (postmodern) version keeps God in His box by drawing sharp lines of distinction between the spiritual and the physical realms.
ment (modern) worldview demands that His involvement with the cosmos be very limited. The current (postmodern) version keeps God in His box by drawing sharp lines of distinction between the spiritual and the physical realms.
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By the mid to late 1900s, the Big Bang cosmology had completely removed God from having any role in the origin of the cosmos and the emergence of celestial systems. Some scientists were more sober in their assertions ...
By the mid to late 1900s, the Big Bang cosmology had completely removed God from having any role in the origin of the cosmos and the emergence of celestial systems. Some scientists were more sober in their assertions ...
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If we can make Genesis scientifically acceptable by dismissing certain elements of the Hebrew cosmos as merely poetic, figurative, allegorical, metaphorical, or phenomenological, then what about the biblical miracles, the virgin birth ...
If we can make Genesis scientifically acceptable by dismissing certain elements of the Hebrew cosmos as merely poetic, figurative, allegorical, metaphorical, or phenomenological, then what about the biblical miracles, the virgin birth ...
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In other words, what kind of information about the natural history of the cosmos can we reasonably expect the Bible to provide? My approach here is not unique, but neither is it very common. Rather than force the book of Genesis to ...
In other words, what kind of information about the natural history of the cosmos can we reasonably expect the Bible to provide? My approach here is not unique, but neither is it very common. Rather than force the book of Genesis to ...
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Contents
Natural Revelation | 17 |
Special Revelation | 35 |
What Can the Bible Tell Us about Nature? | 50 |
The Context of Creation | 51 |
Missing the Point of Genesis | 75 |
Learning from Our Mistakes | 93 |
What Can Nature Tell Us about Itself? | 110 |
The Apparent Age of the Universe | 111 |
The Challenges of Cosmic History | 131 |
The Challenge of Geologic History | 151 |
What about Evolution? | 172 |
A Record of Creation | 173 |
The Universe Tree of Life | 193 |
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