tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11057324.post7039467021589557940..comments2023-06-13T10:03:01.228-05:00Comments on Blue Christian on a Red Background: David Hay's 'Something There: The Biology of the Human Spirit'Jon Trotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08667858230128323729noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11057324.post-72660829727923618062007-05-17T16:24:00.000-05:002007-05-17T16:24:00.000-05:00Wow. My brain hurts. I was reading John Muir's "Wi...Wow. My brain hurts. <BR/><BR/>I was reading John Muir's "Wild Wool" yesterday and found it intriguing how Muir saw genetic adaptation as the ultimate expression of God's providence. Through natural selection God gave the mountain sheep the ability to adapt to harsh environments,developing coarse guard-hairs that protected against wind and rain. This proved to Muir that God loves sheep.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if this is the split to which you refer, but today's rationalist sees the mechanism disconnected from any higher reality of God or Providence. In a kind of mirror-image way, so does the Churchman, who tends to deny the mechanism altogether.<BR/><BR/>I'm just blabbering now, but it seems to me that the Modern Evangelical tries to defend his position against materialists using rationalism as a basis. I think the whole Creationism vs. Evolution debate is a rationalist debate.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03211127761388887571noreply@blogger.com