EarlyActs
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The Dawkins--Lennox debate about "The God Delusion" shows that a trite literalism creates a conflict in which both sides have what is 'falsely called knowledge.' One side has a trite reading of Genesis 1 but has a very hard time seeing what is actually there. Dawkins says that creationism departs from trying to understand the natural world, and just claims it is created, like seeing a watch and thinking of a Watchmaker. But he doesn't mention that mutation results in decay and decline. So they don't get along at all, and mirror each other in some ways.
The adjectives 'lifeless' and 'distant' have disappeared from most cosmology statements; and once they did, the result was confusion for both sides. My view is that they are precisely a distinction that Genesis 1 is trying to make (or really the entire Bible), without which a barricade blocks our understanding.
As I Tim 6 says, don't engage in the opposition of what is 'falsely called knowledge.' Ie, don't put effort into that. Just declare what the text actually says.
The adjectives 'lifeless' and 'distant' have disappeared from most cosmology statements; and once they did, the result was confusion for both sides. My view is that they are precisely a distinction that Genesis 1 is trying to make (or really the entire Bible), without which a barricade blocks our understanding.
As I Tim 6 says, don't engage in the opposition of what is 'falsely called knowledge.' Ie, don't put effort into that. Just declare what the text actually says.
