References to proponents are provided at the head of each section. In this paper, I give a quick tour of some examples of crackpot science. That we and those we influence will not be sucked in. Know some simple, easily-understood arguments that show this to be so, in order We need to realize how weak some of these crackpot ideas are. Us to crackpot exegesis of the Bible and to the sort of arrogance that startsĬults.
Will cut us off from what God is actually doing in nature. The attitudes and thinking that characterize crackpot science. I will suggest that we also need to be aware of the dangers lurking in There are substantial anti-supernatural biases Put forth in the name of science, even by prestigious mainstream scientistsĪnd scientific organizations. What can we do about this? I am not going to suggest swallowing every idea In the sciences come away with the impression that Bible-believers are crackpots, Meeting such Christians, unbelievers trained Methods of science that they easily fall prey to the many crackpot ideas thatĪlways seem to be present in society. In fact, some Christians have become so iconoclastic about the findings and Scientific literacyĪmong evangelical Christians has been rather badly damaged, too. In science, since it is seen as unspiritual or even dangerous. Christian young people are often discouraged from entering a career Reading of Scripture, though there is abundant, repeatable evidence for the Gone back and rejected long-established science that doesn't fit the simplest One result has been that many Bible-believers are suspicious of any newĭiscovery or theory coming from science, especially if it would require rethinkingĪny traditional Christian teaching, whether biblical or not. Since then have only added fuel to the fire. Publication of Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and its rapid acceptanceīy science was the straw that broke the camel's back. Such tension, indeed, existed before this (and was growing slowly), but the Of distrust and tension between the scientific and evangelical communities. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, there has been a strong attitude Some examples are discussed and strategies proposed to protect Christians from looking unnecessarily foolish before the watching world. This has led to a rather widespread attraction to theories viewed as crackpot by scientists and other educated people. Interdisciplinary Biblical Research InstituteĪBSTRACT: Because of the tension which has developed between the scientific and the evangelical communities in the past century and a half, Bible believers are often (rightly or wrongly) suspicious of the discoveries and theorizing of modern science.
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