Last week something potentially very important happened in the world science and faith: The BioLogos Foundation 'opened for business,' so-to-speak. Well, at least they launched their website. It is a new organization, one that seeks to promote theistic evolution. Led by Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and author of "The Language of God," this foundation enters into an arena already filled with creations, atheistic evolutionists and supporter of Intelligent Design.
Watch the video below of Dr. Collins' interview on The Colbert Report for his book a couple of years ago, check out the BioLogos website and give it some thought. I am thoroughly pleased to have this perspective present at the table, given that up to now people have been shown only creationism and materialistic evolution as alternatives. The former being portrayed as living in denial (or willful ignorance) of the evidence and the latter set up as the only viable way of looking at the development of life in the universe.
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See Also from Igneous Quill:
Deistic Evolution? - A brief review of Dr. Collin's book.
Evolution vs. Creationism: Fair Warning - Included here just because I liked the relevant clip from The Simpsons.
Thoughts on The Christian Man's Evolution (1) - This and the next two are reflections on an article I read about evolution and the Christian faith.
Thoughts on The Christian Man's Evolution (2)
Thoughts on The Christian Man's Evolution (3)
Universal Entropy vs. Evolutionary Optimism - Neither angle makes much sense to me.
That's great that Dr. Francis Collins has his own tag! He was actually integral (besides my husband) to my picking up Lewis' Mere Christianity. In an article I read about him he had said his life changed when reading that book, coupled with my husband's enthusiastic praise of the book, I picked it up. And the rest, as they say, is history. Or eternity, however one chooses to look at it :).
ReplyDeleteWow. I actually had a copy of Mere Christianity around for years and had tried to read it a few times. Never made it more than a couple of chapters in. Then there was a time I was on the brink of giving up on having any faith, got the book off the shelf as sort of a "last chance" to Christianity, and was won back. The trouble was that my faith had become toxic. Lewis fixed that.
ReplyDeleteYou really should take a look at NT Wright's work, particularly the podcasts of his lectures available for free on the "NT Wright Page" http://ntwrightpage.com . He is an Anglican bishop and deeply influenced by C.S. Lewis.
Lewis brought me back and Wright set me on the path and gave me a shove.
So...how do you feel about theistic evolution?