Erik Strandness
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Erik Strandness
@estrandness
Author, Christian worldview educator, and Neonatal physician.
Spokane, WA Katılım Haziran 2014
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Why are so many youth groups failing? Let's uncover what truly sets Christianity apart from every other worldview & the two core reasons I believe discipleship has largely failed this generation.
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How science depends on a Christian worldview:
"For science to be possible, a culture must embrace two convictions:
1. that nature has an intelligible order
2. that the human mind is capable of discovering that order.
Today we are so used to thinking that nature has a rational order — that there are “laws” of nature — that we tend to think the idea is simply intuitive. But historian A. R. Hall, in a classic book titled The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800, argues that no other culture, east or west, ancient or modern, has ever used the word “law” in the context of nature. It arose solely in the West during a time when its culture was permeated by Christianity.
As Hall argues, because the God of the Bible was both a creator and a lawgiver, it made sense that this God would give laws to his creation. In his words, “The use of the word ‘law’ in such contexts [i.e., nature] would have been unintelligible in antiquity, whereas the Hebraic and Christian belief in a deity who was at once Creator and Law-giver rendered it valid.”
The second requirement for science is just as important — the conviction that humans have minds that are capable of discovering that order. In his book Darwin’s Century, anthropologist Loren Eiseley explains that science originated from “the sheer act of faith that the universe possessed order and could be interpreted by rational minds.”
In other words, science requires an epistemology, or theory of knowledge, guaranteeing that the human mind is equipped to gain genuine knowledge of the world.
Historically, this guarantee came from the doctrine that humanity was created in the image of God — and that therefore human reason reflects, in some measure, the Divine Reason. Perhaps the most famous line of the early scientists is that they wanted to “think God’s thoughts after him.” The phrase comes from Johannes Kepler, an early astronomer. Kepler said God wanted us to perceive the laws of nature “when he created us in His image in order that may take part in His own thoughts.”
In Creation and the History of Science, Christopher Kaiser says the early scientists were convinced that the natural world is comprehensible because “the same Logos that is responsible for its ordering is also reflected in human reason.”
In How the West Won, sociologist Rodney Stark summarizes the impact of Christianity in these words:
'Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the rise of science is not that the early scientists searched for natural laws, confident that they existed, but that they found them.
It thus could be said that the proposition that the universe had an Intelligent Designer is the most fundamental of all scientific theories and that it has been successfully put to empirical tests again and again.'"
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@NILnotNLI Sadly, I am losing interest in college sports because there is no “I” in team but there is in NIL
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@ClayTravis There is no "I" in team, but sadly there is in NIL
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John Calipari is right on this — allow one player transfer, after that, you have to sit out a year to transfer. We have guys playing for four different teams in four years. It’s beyond ridiculous and bad for the sport:
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If the topic of hell shuts down conversation instead of opening up Bibles, something’s wrong.
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I think the idea of annihilation or conditional immortality—as opposed to eternal conscious torment—is severely heterodox. It’s not what the church has characteristically believed for thousands of years. But no view of the nature of final judgment is a necessary component of salvation.
What ought to be governing our appeal for accuracy and understanding of the text is an attitude of love.
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Debates about fine-tuning, complexity and the origins of information continue to shape conversations at the intersection of science and religion. premierunbelievable.com/articles/scien…
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Is Hell compatible with a God of love? premierunbelievable.com/articles/hell-…
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Can we really know whether God exists… or is belief just a product of evolution and psychology?
premierunbelievable.com/unbelievable/h…
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