I’m sitting in a hotel room in New York City, where I’m attending a gathering of The BioLogos Foundation, an organization of working scientists and Christian theologians who adhere to theological orthodoxy and are scientifically . . . er, up to date. (From the podium tonight, you could hear dismay expressed at both Ken Ham’s Creation Museum and David Barash’s recent essay in the New York Times about convincing his students to move beyond religion – an essay that lends hack Christian cinema like God’s Not Dead something approaching credibility.) It’s an interesting place to be. Gatherings like this give the lie to well-worn stereotypes that all devout Christians are anti-science or anti-evolution.
I excused myself from the post-session chit-chat to come work on another story, but after an evening of listening to presentations from National Institutes of Health president Francis Collins, the (downright poetic) theologian Richard Mouw, and Brad Kramer, a young writer whose Daily Beast response to the Ken Ham-Bill Nye debate went viral earlier this year, I’m having a hard time drawing my attention elsewhere.
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