Theology: Faith and Science
Many people believe faith and science are enemies. Unfortunately, some Christians perpetuate this belief by proposing "scientific" interpretations of the Bible that reject most of the findings of modern science. I believe passionately that this "warfare" stance between faith and science is unnecessary, and even wrong. A Christian must evaluate every human institution critically, including scientific institutions. However, it is not a good practice to view the Bible, written for specific purposes in very different, pre-scientific cultures, as a sort of code book for contemporary scientific investigation of the natural world.
I'm a member of the American Scientific Affiliation and Christians in Science, sister organizations (the ASA is American and CIS is based in the UK) devoted to "complementary" views of historic Christian faith and science. The ASA and CIS websites contain many excellent resources for developing a well-rounded, healthy perspective on faith-science questions.
I often muse about faith-science questions on my Through a Glass Darkly blog. You can follow the progress of some of my thinking on these questions in my blog's "Science and Technology" category. |
