My suspicion grows apace with the slickness of a presentation. This is one reason I squirm in a megachurch. PowerPoint slides, emotion-tugging video clips during the pre-game show, music crafted to feel edgy and relevantâ??my skin crawls like Iâ??m about to hear a sales pitch, which I guess I am, which maybe isnâ??t so bad for God-seekers who arenâ??t inveterate curmudgeons.
â??Slick,â? likewise, was my first response to Neil deGrasse Tysonâ??s Cosmos reboot, which evoked its own megachurch feeling, alternating sci-fi videography with fervent sermons about evolution. The risk in a new set of films from the BioLogos Foundation, which seeks to draw people into a conversation about the intersection of science and faith, is that they will spark exactly that, only one that marries the megachurchâ??s Jesus-Superbowl with the liberation theology that is evolution theory in the mouths of pop scientists like Tyson.
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