With respect to those who avoid slotting as fringe or eccentric, I sometimes wonder if they're often just "cultural" or "philosophical" Christians of some stripe or degree. But with Collins, it is apparently the full Monty. (2007) Richard Dawkins: I'm a cultural Christian http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7136682.stm _
What do you mean by that? EDIT: I get it now. OAC believe man to be created billions of years after maggots for example... good point.
Yes. If nothing died, for millions of years, and new organisms were being procreated throughout…… Mind you, if there was no death, it’s pretty hard to explain what fossils are!
Before we continue as theists or atheists in this discussion. Being an atheist or theist should make no difference to scientific work. Most Christian theists we will not have heard of, they are just doing science. The bad ones like Tour, Behe are bad because they are selling unscientific ideas because of their religious beliefs. That is what I understand by the thread.
No it doesn't. I don't understand OEC, if god did it he would not not take all day would he? So OEC is not scientific OR Biblical, it ticks no boxes.
There is a physicist I like, a nice gent, theist and has done some debates in the last ten years but cannot find him.
Again on the biology side there is Alastair McGrath of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alister_McGrath. (D Phil in molecular biophysics)
I enjoyed his book “Dawkins’ God”, which I picked up on impulse in Blackwell’s in Oxford, while killing time before going to visit my old tutor, who had just celebrated his 70th birthday with a dinner in college the night before. As Dawkins is an Oxford prof I suppose I thought it would be amusing to read something that took him down a peg or two - and which was written by another Oxford prof! These academics can get quite catty amongst themselves. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I have just found a debate between the two, I'll check it out Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Got a First in chemistry (in the year ahead of me, apparently) and then a First in theology only a year after getting his D Phil in molecular biophysics.
