A wonderful romp through competing metaphors of reality:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jhfwt/Did_Darwin_Kill_God/
My personal favourite "duality" is "the process and the attractor." In this case the process is evolution (and neo-darwinianism is only part of this process) and the attractor is the pattern that the process occupies.
There are layers and layers of processes and patterns. Existence is populated by processes and the deepest patterns are wholeness and connectedness. All are part of connectedness, from the mind that conceives the ideal form to transient object of perception.
The reason why this debate is so important and relevant to this site is that the cognative processes of wholeness and connectedness are enmeshed in flesh.
Norbu
Great topic for a thread Norbu! The quick answer is no!;)
However, the long answer (which really depends on what one's concept of "God" is) from me will have to wait until I get back from holiday in a couple of weeks!
:wave:
Judy
Translation:
In other words, folks, this is an interesting documentary indeed, that I got a link to from elsewhere. We tend to think that Christianity has always taken the Bible literally, and there have been endless threads on HP about the fact that it is not intended to be taken literally. At least not the Old Testament. This documentary demonstrates on the one hand that the fundamentalist literal approach to the Bible only began around 1925. Prior to that, and back to early Christianity, Christians knew, accepted, and wrote that it is largely allegorical e.g. the story or stories of the Creation in Genesis.
Secondly, Darwin never saw his theory of evolution as competing against religion. He viewed evolution as a wonderful example of God in action, imminent in the world and not aloof from it. After the publication of his theory and its acceptance, faith in the Bible and Christianity did not fall in the West, but arose.
Fundamentalism in Christianity and the rejection of evolution dates back to political occurrences circa 1925. See the prog. 🙂
V
Great topic for a thread Norbu! The quick answer is no!;)
However, the long answer (which really depends on what one's concept of "God" is) from me will have to wait until I get back from holiday in a couple of weeks!
:wave:
Judy
Judy, I think the point really, if you haven't seen it, is the documentary and its contents! 🙂
V
Fundamentalism in Christianity and the rejection of evolution dates back to political occurrences circa 1925. See the prog.
They obviously didn't look into Charles Spurgeon and the Down Garde Controversy in the 1880s? IMO Much of English history has been shaped by the battle of fundamentalism, i.e. the English Civil war.
Obviously evolution couldn't have been rejected by fundamentalists until it had been documented. But there has always been a thread of fundamental Christianity, as there are in other reglions.
Myarka.