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This image from Pictoral Theology illustrates nicely a number of things about the approach many conservative Christians take to science and nature. Seeing \u201cGOD\u201d in DNA involves (1) treating one\u2019s English language as normative, (2) selectively leaving out and adding things and fixating on the ones which provide meaning, and (3)\u00a0reading significance that just isn\u2019t there into the result of doing (1) and (2).<\/p>\n
If you can\u2019t see God at work in the world the way it really is, then your theology is a failure to begin with and needs to be scrapped. If the only way to maintain and promote your worldview\u00a0is to twist and ignore inconvenient evidence, then you\u2019re already acknowledging (to others if not to yourself) that you haven\u2019t got it all figured out.<\/p>\n
For others of us, God embraces\u00a0the sum of all we know, and goes beyond into the mystery of all we do not.<\/p>\n
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This image from Pictoral Theology illustrates nicely a number of things about the approach many conservative Christians take to science and nature. Seeing \u201cGOD\u201d in DNA involves (1) treating one\u2019s English language as normative, (2) selectively leaving out and adding things and fixating on the ones which provide meaning, and (3)\u00a0reading significance that just isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,148,108],"tags":[1625,1835,2148,2608,2759,3869,4250,8589,9134,10886,10903,11038],"class_list":["post-32162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-intelligent-design-pseudoscience","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-cartoon","tag-christian","tag-conservative","tag-deoxyribose","tag-dna","tag-genome","tag-guanine","tag-oxygen","tag-pictoral-theology","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-selectivity"],"yoast_head":"\n