Constructing a new biblical creationism as solution to the problem of the relationship between religion and science
Abstract
This study is an attempt to construct a new biblical creationism as solution to
the problem of the relationship between religion and science. It examines the
challenge of modern evolutionism and the churches' responses against it.
The modern evolutionism as the acting hypothesis of many modern scientific
disciplines helps the Church to re-examine its traditional doctrine of creation.
There are two Christian responses against the challenge: individually, various
positions are active, such as the theistic evolutionism, the recent special
creationism, and the old earth creationism; collectively, the Christian churches
have not given careful consideration to the challenge.
This study examines the creation account in Genesis 1 according to the Kantian
epistemology of the writer's Th. M dissertation, an examination of modern
eschatology. It proposes a presentist understanding of creation as the tentative
alternative to the traditional creationism. It suggests that:
1) In evolution debate both creationists and evolutionists seem to assume
there is an examined scientific creationism.
2) Because the traditional divine report model is unverifiable, we need to
construct a scientific model.
3) The account seems to follow the ancient clay tablet format.
4) This study proposes a 'new habitat orientation week' model: the
assumed observer's report of daily recognition of the wonderful world.
5) It informs us both of the responsibility for the world and of the
significance of communal life.
6) It may provide a balanced foundation both for the sound relationship
between science and religion and for the positive Christian worldview.
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