Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 10:28AM | by Otter He wanted to write his research paper on science and Christianity. Against my better judgment, I let him do it: he wasn’t terribly clear what he wanted to say about it, but he seemed to have a belief that science “comes after” Christianity…
Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 10:40PM | by Otter Most of the time it's not what students don't know that hampers them: their natural curiosity will fill that in.
It's getting rid of the false assumption that they know anything....
When the man says, "Bone of my bone / flesh of my flesh / she shall be called Ishah for out of Ish she was taken," they have to feel that one in the groin, not the vague dull pedagogical theological node of the brain that lectures them about the sanctity of marriage.
Otherwise, much of what follows remains dark to them.
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 8:49AM | by Otter Science deals with things that are extended in time and space, and insofar as The Big Questions are supernatural or whatever, they are not approachable by science.
The bare-faced lie that is currently being perpetrated on American evangelicals generally is at least an interesting one. It's that the Bible is itself a form of science, and simultaneously a "fact" that can be interpreted as reasonable persons interpret other facts.
