Any View Of The Sciences That Leaves

If We Take Seriously The Word-flesh Christology Of Chalcedon (i.e., The Doctrine That Christ Is Fully Human And Fully Divine) And View Christ As The Telos Toward Which God Is Drawing The Whole Of Creation, Then Any View Of The Sciences That Leaves Christ Out Of The Picture Must Be Seen As Fundamentally Deficient.

Intelligent Design Is A Modest Position Theologically And Philosophically. It Attributes The Complexity And Diversity Of Life To Intelligence, But Does Not Identify That Intelligence With The God Of Any Religious Faith Or Philosophical System.

I Think The Opportunity To Deal With Students And Getting Them Properly Oriented On Science And Theology And The Relation Between Those Is Going To Be Important Because Science Has Been Such An Instrument Used By The Materialists To Undermine The Christian Faith And Religious Belief Generally.

Naturalism Is The View That The Physical World Is A Self-contained System That Works By Blind, Unbroken Natural Laws. Naturalism Doesn't Come Right Out And Say There's Nothing Beyond Nature. Rather, It Says That Nothing Beyond Nature Could Have Any Conceivable Relevance To What Happens In Nature. Naturalism's Answer To Theism Is Not Atheism But Benign Neglect. People Are Welcome To Believe In God, Though Not A God Who Makes A Difference In The Natural Order.

The Wrong People Will Do Everything In Their Power To Guarantee That The Wrong Political Climate Will Continue. It Seems, Then, That The Wrong People Ensure The Wrong Political Climate And The Wrong Political Climate Ensures The Wrong People. How Then To Break Free Of This Vicious Circle?