| ??? 09/06/07 18:42 Read: times |
#144092 - Interpretation Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Hi Richard,
What really puzzles me is why these people have to adopt an adversarial position, trying to tell us that there's gross conflict between, say, the fossil record and the scriptures. Isn't it all subject to interpretation? Not really, at least no more than the morning newspaper is open to interpretation. If you read Genesis for what it says, it's an uncanny description of the fossil record (not to mention the Big Bang Theory). The problem arises on the religious side when theologians insist that a creation day has to be 24 hours (a position that can not be supported either scripturally or linguistically). On the secular side, the problem arises when people abandon the fundamental tenets of science, hypothesis and empiricism, in lieu of concensus and acceptance. You end up with both sides pushed apart by mutual antagonism. You end up with theologians who, in their fervor to reject science, turn God into a deceiver and religion into heresy. And you end up with secularists who effectively adopt their own religion and call it science. |
