Comments on: The utter folly of scientific materialism https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/the-utter-folly-of-scientific.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom Kratman https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/the-utter-folly-of-scientific.html#comment-1382 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:56:50 +0000 #comment-1382 In reply to Tom Kratman.

Also, though likewise not literally true, there's a poem from…oh, maybe the 20s…wait, the last 20s…by one James Weldon Johnson, The Creation. He took, apparently, the sermons of one or more black ministers in the south, men not perhaps too well schooled but in whose breast the spirit of God plainly dwelt, and made a poem of it. I commend it to you, for the feel of the thing: poets.org/poem/creation

]]> By: Eduardo the Magnificent https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/the-utter-folly-of-scientific.html#comment-1381 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:46:11 +0000 #comment-1381 Keep in mind that these origin myths came from a tradition of oral storytelling, where symbols, allegories and parables were used to provide detail, and people filled in the blanks with their understanding. How many translations of the Illiad are there? We all understand the story of Achilles anyway. Sperging out over every word to get every minute detail 100% correct is largely a modern thing. (I said that last sentence at VP many years ago and Nate called me a retard. Says the guy who doesn't like Scotch. Also, who hasn't been called a retard by Nate?) If science and God's method of creation don't jive 110%, that doesn't make the Biblical story wrong.

]]> By: Didact https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/the-utter-folly-of-scientific.html#comment-1380 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 08:42:07 +0000 #comment-1380 In reply to Tom Kratman.

I remember Stickwick well, she's a very smart lady who comments frequently at VP. I recall that she wrote a homeschooling book for astrophysics for Castalia House.

To be clear, I am not at all against the notion that Genesis accurately describes the origin of the Universe and of life on Earth. I keep a much more open mind about the idea than I used to. I simply assert that things did not happen LITERALLY the way that Genesis said they did, word for word – but I think that this is because human language is simply insufficient to convey the full glory of God's Creation in terms that we mere mortals can understand.

]]> By: Tom Kratman https://didacticmind.com/2019/08/the-utter-folly-of-scientific.html#comment-1379 Sat, 24 Aug 2019 18:20:46 +0000 #comment-1379 Sarah Salviander, aka Stickwick on VP, has an interesting page somewhere on line concerning how Genesis actually matches what happened at the moment of creation and thereafter pretty much perfectly. Since she's a astrophysicist at UTA, who was raised as an atheist, and found faith pretty much via science, she's worth paying attention to.

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