Pastor Gardner quotes Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Wilson’s grand conclusion is that “all tangible phenomena, from the birth of stars to the workings of social institutions, are based on material processes that are ultimately reducible, however long and tortuous the sequences, to the laws of physics.” He envisions the unification of the natural sciences with the social sciences and humanities. As he puts it, “The human condition is the most important frontier of the natural sciences,” and “the material world exposed by the natural sciences is the most important frontier of the social sciences and humanities. The consilience argument can be distilled as follows: the two frontiers are the same.”
The bird is being lowered into the mines . . .
Can you imagine how much fun it must be to sit through a sermon with Brother Clinton? Wow—Consilience—nice word. What biblical text would he use? Existentialism and nascent naturalism can be pretty cold bedfellows. Ain’t gonna mend many broken hearts though!
Seriously, though, these peckerwoods are arguing quite eloquently that 1. My fundamentalism is not only irrelevant, it is uncool and rude (what a low blow!). 2. My belief that that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God is, well, old fashioned. 3. Finally, my belief in a 24 hour creation is likewise dumb.
What can I say? I believe all these things and more. The God I serve is amazing, far more amazing than the God of Brothers Clinton and Edward.
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