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Friday, January 4th, 2008I get frustrated when atheists point to the dumbest Christians they could find and as soon as they express a lack of education in an advanced scientific area, claim to have discredited Christianity. But it’s equally frustrating when a Christian thinks that because the idiotic statement “the 2nd law of thermodynamics disproves evolution” stumps the most uneducated atheist he can find, he’s made steps towards anything.
Yes, yes, and yes. This has been a great frustration for me for the last decade and a half, and as usual, Matt sums up in two sentences what I’ve been trying to say for several years. I really wish the scientific establishment would stop treating believers as young-earth rubes. There are many of us who believe the Bible and yet remain comfortable with the idea of aeons, dinosaurs, and australopithecus (if you get my continental drift). “Middle ground” between science and religion doesn’t discredit or weaken either side. The religion camp should not be afraid at all of scientific truth, because truth is truth and future generations may look at us as provincial in light of new knowledge (just ask Urban VIII how he feels about that old earth-centered view).
Dangit, that still took me four sentences.
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