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Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999)
My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999)
Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.
The world is a mirror representing the divine life...
As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism.
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999)
The question rather is how we should do science and theology in light of the impending collapse of Enlightenment rationalism and scientific naturalism. These ideologies are on the way out. They are on the way out.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999)
This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also to engage the culture and reclaim it for Christ. That's really what is driving me.
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology (1999)
I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.