The time has come, the Walrus said.... (long)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > Christian faith does not deny the existence of Science and there is a 
> > considerable body of scientific opinion which does not deny the 
> > existence of faith.
 
Potioncat:
> What a post! I snipped most of it because I'm really saying "me too.'
> 
> There is a large segment of people, or at least a visible one in the US who have made a mental split between science and faith. It's on both sides; that is, scientists who disdain faith and Christians who reject science. There is a controversy in some schools over science books and the theory of evolution. I don't know if it's true for other countries as well.

Geoff:
I'm in the middle of reading a very interesting book I came across at Spring 
Harvest. This is one of the biggest Christian conventions/celebrations in the 
UK, held around Eastertime, and one of the venues is Minehead, 7 miles from 
where we live.

The book is "The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin" by Charles Foster, 
who is a noted Christian thinker. The name is a parody of "The Selfish Gene" the 
well-known pro-evolution by Richard Dawkins. In it, the author tackles the 
theories put forward by the Neo-Darwinists, of whom Dawkins is one of the 
most strident and patronising and, on the other side,  the Young Earth 
Creationists. In this book, he has written one of the best analyses of the first 
couple of chapters of Genesis I have read showing how they can be reconciled 
with the ideas of Darwin.

Potioncat:
> Americans like to decorate their cars with statements and symbols that say something about them. A very common decal for cars is the Christian symbol--the fish. Then there is a fish with feet with the word DARWIN on it. And another with one fish eating the other (at the moment I can't remember if Darwin was eating the faith fish, or if it was the other way around.)
> 
> Again, me too. And I really like the explanation for why the water is boiling.
> 
> Kettle's on. Who wants tea?

Geoff:
Fish badges are equally common here. My wife banned me from having one 
when I changed cars last year. She says my use of it would frighten off 
anyone!
:-(