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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If resolving conflicts between science and the Bible were as simple as erecting a wall of separation between the physical and the metaphysical, then there probably wouldn't be much controversy in the first place.
If resolving conflicts between science and the Bible were as simple as erecting a wall of separation between the physical and the metaphysical, then there probably wouldn't be much controversy in the first place.
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Lacking a basic understanding of fundamental scientific concepts, they probably aren't very likely to keep up with the latest discoveries, developments or scientific theories. Who has time for that? Another problem is that most of ...
Lacking a basic understanding of fundamental scientific concepts, they probably aren't very likely to keep up with the latest discoveries, developments or scientific theories. Who has time for that? Another problem is that most of ...
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... of the elements.10 The intent behind this statement was probably nothing more than damage control. A few shortsighted Christians must have been making demonstrably false claims based on the Bible, ultimately embarrassing the church.
... of the elements.10 The intent behind this statement was probably nothing more than damage control. A few shortsighted Christians must have been making demonstrably false claims based on the Bible, ultimately embarrassing the church.
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This isolated example shows us how dragging the book of Genesis through a few thousand years of scientific discovery probably just guarantees that we're going to completely miss the original point of it. And if we really are missing the ...
This isolated example shows us how dragging the book of Genesis through a few thousand years of scientific discovery probably just guarantees that we're going to completely miss the original point of it. And if we really are missing the ...
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Anybody who claims to be on top of this situation probably doesn't understand the first thing about either science or theology. For every set of problems solved by one approach, another set of problems arises to take its place.
Anybody who claims to be on top of this situation probably doesn't understand the first thing about either science or theology. For every set of problems solved by one approach, another set of problems arises to take its place.
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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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