Tuesday, April 06, 2021
Non-point-missing on declining churches
For a nice comparison with previous item, here's an article on the Gallup religion poll that DOESN'T miss the important points. Robert Shedinger is mainly talking about education, not churches. He's telling us what he hears from his own actual college students. EXPERIENCE, not theory.
Many students come to this class with a real curiosity about how scientific and religious thought might intertwine. And this curiosity betrays a spiritual hunger just looking to be filled. These students may not be involved in church, synagogue, or mosque, but they are suspicious of materialism and become very open to the suggestion of an intelligence at work in the cosmos. Cosmological fine-tuning arguments tend to fascinate them. Trying to account for the origin of life from non-life by materialist processes flummoxes them. The evidence of intelligent design in living organisms fills them with awe. The idea of reducing mind and consciousness to chemistry and physics seems utterly ridiculous to them. The fact that they have never encountered these ideas in their science and psychology classes frustrates them to no end.On the dot, and beautifully written. ¶ 11:21 PM
