The Meeting of the Ways
The hope of this blog is to contribute to the dialogue and reconciliation of science and Christianity. There is a Bible verse that symbolizes this to me, in the story of Christ's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday:
Mark 11:4 - And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.
We who believe in both these pathways of human civilization are in many ways like this colt, tied in a place where, "two ways met". We hope to be loosed under God's guidance to proceed with scientific understanding into the Holy City of God.
This is not a course without disagreements and strife. In yet another Bible verse, we find similar symbolism, in the story of Paul's shipwreck:
Acts 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
And so we too may encounter stormy seas in this quest, and find our ship at risk from, "the violence of the waves." ...
posted by rvtheologian @ 5:51 PM
2 Comments:
One must understand the religious sense. To gaze upon the cosmos in wonder and awe, or into the inner workings of an atom, or into a living cell, is a religious experience, in the proper sense of the term. This sense seems to have almost gotten lost in modern times.
Let me rephrase the previous comment. Human beings have the ability to sense the existence of a higher power. Of course, people sho believe in science only will deny this "sense"
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