Recently I was introduced to the 'Clergy Letter Project' that was trying to enlist 10,000 clergy to convey that modern science and the Bible could coexist but that the Bible had nothing to say regarding the origin of things and only science could speak to that issue. 'The Bible is to transform hearts, science is to explain our existence via evolution,' they state.
What amazed me was that they got over the 10,000 desired signatures! And these are Pastors! It seems these pastors are taking a step back while others in the scientific community are taking a step forward.
A case in point is this excerpt from Chuck Colson's Break Point:
"One of the most dramatic cases is Antony Flew, whom I met this summer when I was lecturing in Oxford. Flew was perhaps the leading atheist philosopher in the world. But at 81, he was introduced to the intelligent design movement and the works of Dr. Michael Behe, who found that the human cell structure is irreducibly complex -- and therefore could not have arisen by evolution and gradual natural selection. Flew also realized that some of the things that the early writers of the Scripture had written could not have been humanly known at that time, but have subsequently been vindicated by scientific discovery. Flew was a man of integrity, and rather than just changing his mind and going away quietly, he announced to the world that he was now a Deist, believing that there was an intelligence in the universe that created this world." Nov. 25, 2005.
Lord, thank you for your timeless, inerrant Word and help the unbelieving Pastors to discover the truths it holds as Mr. Flew did.
1 comment:
Pastor,
Glad to see you in the blogging world! I look forward to reading often. In our next church directory, we are going to need an index of people's blog sites!
Thanks for sharing your inner thoughts and ponderings with us.
Dawn
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