{"id":3042,"date":"2009-11-02T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/review-of-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one-part-sixteen\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T13:07:00","slug":"review-of-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one-part-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/review-of-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one-part-sixteen.html","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One, Part Sixteen"},"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><p>It is high time to resume my <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/review-of-lost-world-of-genesis-one_08.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogging through John Walton\u2019s <em>The Lost World of Genesis One<\/em><\/a>. I particularly valued chapter 16, which begins by emphasizing that questions about <em>purpose<\/em> and <em>process<\/em> are different sorts of questions, and that we simply do not have enough information to enable us to claim that some specific scientific model of the cosmos is or is not reconcilable with the nature of God (p.134). Walton also warns that \u201cbiblical belief does not associate God\u2019s work only with those aspects that remain a mystery\u201d (p.135). The specific example he then turns to is <a href=\"http:\/\/clashingculture.wordpress.com\/2009\/05\/10\/theistic-embryology-the-next-science-faith-debate\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">embryology<\/a>, relating this scientific field to Psalm 139 (as <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-evolved.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I\u2019ve also done on a previous occasion<\/a>). Walton writes: \u201cPsalm 139 does not require us to denounce the science of embryology\u2026We don\u2019t organize campaigns to force academic institutions that train meteorologists or embryologists to offer the theological alternative of God\u2019s role. Why should our response to evolution be any different?\u201d (pp.135-6).<\/p>\n<p>This chapter also touches briefly on other passages that are sometimes felt to raise issues for Christians who might otherwise embrace the results of modern science \u2013 Genesis 2 and Romans 5 \u2013 and Walton says very little other than to suggest that these passages may \u201cnot pose as many problems as some have thought\u201d (p.140). The chapter concludes with a repetition of its main point, namely that whether the issue is embryology or evolution, scientific explanation of the <em>mechanism<\/em> need not undermine a Christian\u2019s affirmation of divine <em>meaning<\/em> in these processes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4607071879117422536?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is high time to resume my blogging through John Walton\u2019s The Lost World of Genesis One. I particularly valued chapter 16, which begins by emphasizing that questions about purpose and process are different sorts of questions, and that we simply do not have enough information to enable us to claim that some specific scientific [&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-3042","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>Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One, Part Sixteen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is high time to resume my blogging through John Walton&#039;s The Lost World of Genesis One. 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