There is a lot of cultural conversation (and confusion) around religious freedom, same-sex marriage, and what Jesus would do if he were here. This is helpful commentary to help sort out some of the issues (and misunderstandings).
Also, see the article Why Everyone Needs the Right to Be Wrong
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When it comes to talking about evolution, creation, intelligent design, science, and faith in the public square, how should we do that as Christians? What should our priorities be? How do we have conviction and wisdom? Are there certain tactics that might be helpful? How can we better equip our youth to think about questions of origins? Is theistic evolution a viable option for Christians? This and more…
Is there really no debate about evolution today?
If you enjoyed this topic / podcast, you would enjoy this discussion with a Hebrew scholar on understanding the early chapters of Genesis.
Also helpful, is this video on seven days that divide the world.
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Here is an excellent video on Darwinian evolution, Intelligent Design and Science. It took place at Socrates in the City. Enjoy!
“Darwin’s Doubt” with Stephen Meyer from Socrates in the City on Vimeo.
“In the origin of species, Darwin openly acknowledges important weaknesses in his theory and professed his own doubts about key aspects of it. Yet today’s public defenders of a Darwin-only science curriculum apparently do not want these, or any other scientific doubts about contemporary Darwinian theory, reported to students. This book addresses Darwin’s most significant doubt . . . and how a seemingly isolated anomaly that Darwin acknowledged almost in passing has grown to become illustrative of a fundamental problem for all of evolutionary biology.” —FROM THE PROLOGUE
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There is no such thing as religiously neutral intellectual endeavor — or rather there is no such thing as serious, substantial and relatively complete intellectual endeavor that is religiously neutral. – Alvin Plantinga
This is a very important point to bring up. After all, as Christians we have a point of view. A perspective on God in general and Jesus in particular. Plantinga’s point is that if you give serious thought to ultimate questions, you can’t be neutral. Neutrality in and of itself is not a virtue. Too much is at stake.
But what this observation doesn’t mean is that if you have a point of view about ultimate reality, you can’t be objective. We should always be honest about where we are coming from but we must also allow evidence and reason (reality) to correct our point of view. This is the kind of critical realism that allows us to make genuine progress in discovering more about the way reality actually is.
“God usually exerts that power in connection with certain prior conditions of the human mind, and it should be ours to create, so far as we can, with the help of God, those favorable conditions for the reception of the gospel. False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion.” – J. Gresham Machen
*Address delivered on September 20, 1912, at the opening of the 101st session of Princeton Theological Seminary.