Debatable debate: Dawkins and Collins
What happens when you cross two biologists -- one a staunch athiest and the other an evangelical Christian? You can find out by reading the cover story in this week's TIME magazine, which might more appropriately be called "Dawkins vs. Collins."
The debate is at times provoking and amusing; harsh and congenial; compelling and annoying. I have qualms about some of the article's content, but I'll save my opinions and let you form your own.
To read the entire cover story, go here. You can read the whole article without subscribing to TIME; you just need to agree to watch a brief advertisement first.
posted by Katie @ 6:54 PM
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"If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed." --Dawkins
Right. And should that come around, he'll belittle that too. If Dawkins reaches the end of his life without understanding that God is already far beyond comprehension, I'm afraid that eternity will come as a bit of a shock to him.
On the scientific level, I can understand Dawkins thinking that Collins uses God as a cop-out for not exploring further using scientific means. However, I think this is because Collins actually understands more than Dawkins does by realizing that God does exist and is active in the world He created. Denying His existence is like trying to put together an infinite puzzle with the box top gone. Religion isn't going to fill in the gaps that science leaves out--it isn't science. God is the whole picture.
"God is the whole picture."
How easy it is to forget that sometimes...
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