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OT Controversy 4: Does Genetic Evidence Contradict Adam & Eve? We conclude our discussion on Genesis, creation, and evolution by addressing the controversy over the historical Adam & Eve.
Review: How I Changed My Mind About Evolution
Review: How I Changed My Mind About Evolution
How I Changed My Mind About Evolution, Kathryn Applegate and J. B. Stump, eds. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2016.
Summary: Twenty-five narratives of Christians who accept evolutionary creation and how, in most cases, they changed their minds in reaching this conclusion.
There is a widespread impression in American universities and among many young people that Christianity and science are at war…
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Francis Collins, The Language of God
Evolution/Creationism Debate
If you don't understand the scientific side of the debate, don't get involved. You're not going to impress anyone on that side with your uninformed statements and questions. It actually makes them think you're quite the idiot. There are plenty of creationists who not only acknowledge the scientific evidence but find no disagreement between it and the biblical account.
Diagrams, maps, sets of abstract relations, tactical gambits, are as real in a fiction about a fiction about a fiction as they are encountered raw, but subjecting such semiotic contraband to multiple embeddings allows a traffic in materials for decoding dominant reality that would otherwise be proscribed. Rather than acting as transcendental screens, blocking out contact between itself and the world, the fiction acts as a Chinese box a container for sorcerous interventions in the world. The frame is both used (for concealment) and broken (the fictions potentiate changes in reality).
Word.
On Language, Soft Language
Our use of euphemisms is proof of a deep-seated belief in the magic of words. Steven Pinker explains: “Taboo speech is part of a larger phenomenon known as word magic. Though one of the foundations of linguistics is that the pairing between a sound and a meaning is arbitrary, most humans intuitively believe otherwise. They treat the name for an entity as part of its essence, so that the mere act of uttering a name is seen as a way to impinge on its referent. Incantations, spells, prayers, and curses are ways that people try to affect the world through words, and taboos and euphemisms are ways that people try not to affect it.” (The Stuff of Thought, p. 331) http://mysteryarts.blogspot.com/2009/09/euphemisms-are-anti-magic-words.html?m=1