BioLogos 2
So just this morning I tuned in to Just Thinking and wouldn’t you know it’s Stuart McAllister doing a series on “Naturalism”.
Now, I only heard part 3 of this 4 part series, but it was certainly difficult for me to separate Stuart’s obvious challenge to Naturalism from an attack on the principles of Evolutionary Theory. I will only say that I feel even more that we need to be clear about challenging and refuting Naturalism and Materialism without rejecting good science. God is not threatened by discovery of truth, why should we fear reason? We should certainly challenge ideas that go beyond the evidence, but let’s be careful not to create ludicrous or foolish explanations for ideas that are not, in themselves, anti-Christian.
Stuart did make a very cool point about religion and violence: 130 million people (at minimum) were killed in the 20th century by or in the name of Atheistic regimes. Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, the Khmer Rouge, and on it goes. Religious conflict has never come close to that level of killing, so what do we make of the claims that religion causes all conflict?
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