Richard Dawkins want s Vicars to Be Careful: “You are playing with dynamite, fooling around with a misunderstanding that’s … almost bound to happen if not forestalled”
How come? They “blithely go into the pulpit & make some moral or theological point about Adam & Eve in their sermons without once mentioning that, of course, Adam & Eve never actually existed!”
Can you believe it? They even sell Christmas cards without a Government mandated warning that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer does not actually exist either.
My own daughter, undoubtedly in the same genius class as Dawkins, rather than just an idiot prole, used to ask – if reassurance were needed: Is that true-true or just pretend-true?
Dawkins himself seems still to be in need of such reassurance. Perhaps because he does, in fact, know that science is only provisionally true, from where we stand right now.
I am not a Believer or a Denier in Dawkins angrily confused sense. I am content to accept many of our scientific explanations of process (rather than cause).
And the first biblical version of Creation – the one in Genesis Chapter 1 – strikes me as an awe inspiringly poetic account of the chronology of the beginning of the World as we know it.
