The Culture Beat: Thank God for evolution. Huh?
A blog called The Culture Beat reproduces an article from The Johnson City (Tenn.) Press about a couple who "travel[s] the country full-time, preaching and teaching a surprising message: Rather than threaten or undermine faith, evolution can sustain, inform and even motivate religious belief."Language is another bridge linking science and religion, according to Dowd. When we understand how language developed, he said, “All concepts of God and religion make complete sense.”All societies grow up with what he calls “night language … the language of dreams and metaphors that humans have used through their history to explain the world.
"These stories speak deep subjective truth," he said. "The story of the fall in the Garden of Eden – that’s profoundly true in night language. Then science comes along … and puts down night language, speaks only in 'day language,' which is literal and fact-based. Myths are pushed aside. Of course the religionists react against that." But the two "languages" not only exist together. They help interpret each other.
"Science and religion cannot be only reconciled – that’s lame," Dowd said. "There’s mutual enhancing. The scientific enterprise can’t avoid the question of meaning, or it goes off into destruction. The Nazis showed us that. Religion is enriched by being grounded in the world of day language and concepts."
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 2:26 PM
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Paul quoted Michael Dowd saying:
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"'Science and religion cannot be only reconciled – that's lame,' Dowd said. 'There's mutual enhancing. The scientific enterprise can't avoid the question of meaning, or it goes off into destruction. The Nazis showed us that."
I'm calling "Godwin's Law" on Michael Dowd here for using a Nazi analogy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Nazism wasn't some sort of souless science run amok. Much of what fueled the Nazi agenda was adapted from prejudice grounded in traditional religious beliefs.
For example, the anti-Semitism found within Nazism had roots in Christianity.
The Jesus Seminar Co-Chair John Dominic Crossan has said the following about the roots of anti-Semitism in the Gospel passion stories:
"Anti-Semitism means six million Jews on Hitler's list but only twelve hundred Jews on Schindler's list. This book is about anti-Semitism, not however in its latest European obscenity but in its earliest Christian latency. It is about the historicity of the passion narratives, those terribly well-known stories about Jesus' arrest and trial, abuse and crucifixion, burial and resurrection."
http://www.johndominiccrossan.com/Who%20Killed%20Jesus.htm
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