{"id":2268,"date":"2009-07-19T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-michael-spencer\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:38:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-michael-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-michael-spencer.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Michael Spencer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cIt would seem to me that if evangelicals cannot develop a stronger response and skill at conversation regarding the discoveries of science, we are going to find ourselves so marginalized that whatever we say to ourselves will have little effect on those who are visiting other worlds, other civilizations and reading the story of the universe in DNA and astrophysics\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2014 Michael Spencer, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/evangelicals-in-the-classroom-of-the-star-trek-universe\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evangelicals in the Star Trek Universe<\/a>\u201c, Internet Monk<\/div>\n<p>The whole piece is well worth a read, not just for <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~jfmcgrat\/sci-fi\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">sci-fi<\/a> fans but also for those interested in the engagement between theology and contemporary science.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4762311105515525778?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt would seem to me that if evangelicals cannot develop a stronger response and skill at conversation regarding the discoveries of science, we are going to find ourselves so marginalized that whatever we say to ourselves will have little effect on those who are visiting other worlds, other civilizations and reading the story of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Michael Spencer)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;It would seem to me that if evangelicals cannot develop a stronger response and skill at conversation regarding the discoveries of science, we are going\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-michael-spencer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Michael Spencer)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;It would seem to me that if evangelicals cannot develop a stronger response and skill at conversation regarding the discoveries of science, we are going\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/07\/quote-of-the-day-michael-spencer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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