Thursday, December 16, 2010

Creation

Creation/Science
How do we view the relation between these two? It's a source of lots of debate, sometimes very heated.
Here's a quote from Karl Barth.
"There is free scope for natural science beyond what theology describes as the work of the Creator. And theology can and must move freely where science which is really science, and not secretly a pagan Gnosis or religion, has its appointed limits." Church Dogmatics, III, part 1, page X.

In her book "Absence of Mind," M. Robinson gets at this similarly when she speaks of science and parascience. Parascience would be religion posing as science.