Archive for Wednesday, May 21, 2008

How and Why

I wonder how much time and energy has been spent on the question of how this all came to be. Darwin framed the debate in those terms and since then the church and the world has been consumed by the question of how. It seems that this has done little more than side-track much of our work as the church. It isn’t that the question of “How” is an improper field of study for the church, I wonder though if it should be primary as it has been. If we believe in divine inspiration then we have to believe also that we got only the important stuff for life and if we were doing a better job of that we wouldn’t be as concerned about this question. Read the rest of this entry »

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