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Biblical Creation Texts

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Outline notes for two sessions on the biblical creation texts.

Voices

Science is about knowing and so is religion, but they’re about different kinds of knowing. Science is about how things happen and what’s out there. And religion is much more about the meaning behind what is and relationships between human beings and that beyond ourselves and between human beings themselves.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

Think of who created thought.

Rumi

When we do science, we participate in the healing work of the creator. When we understand a little more of nature, we take a step further in the reconciliation of a broken relationship.

Tom McLeish

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Alistair McGrath

I don’t argue things being spiritual vs scientific, because I’ve never met anyone who knows enough about either to be convincing.

S. Kelley Harrell

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

John Polkinghorne

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest of us sit round and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Marie Curie

Sometimes you want to whisper in God’s ear, “God, we know you are in charge, but why don’t you make it slightly more obvious?”

Archbishop Desmond Tutu