As promised, we’re back to science/evolution and religion today. You see today’s heading. There is, of course, a long history of the relationship between the two, all the way from supportive to hostile. I published a small book some years ago that contains two essays on the subject. One is my 70-page translation of an essay by Abraham Kuyper; the other, an 80-page chapter on this subject by yours truly. These have gone through two printings and now are available as ebooks. I encourage you to access this material.
Title of the Kuyper chapter: “You Can Do Greater Things than Christ.”
Title of my own chapter: “Science without Faith Is Dead.”
The paper editions being out of print, you can now access these two chapters free of charge from my ebook publisher under the title Faith, Science, Miracles, Islam: Four Kuyperian Essays at the following address:
To access them, though free of charge, you need to go through the entire purchase protocol. That is to say, push the cart through to the cash register as if you are intending to buy. You even have to establish an account with www.lulu.com as is required of any customer by every online publisher. But don’t worry, at the end your bill will be an exact $00.00. And while you’re perusing those documents, take a look at some other free < jan h boer > publications on the same website. You will find plenty there to keep you reading for a long, long time!
Some people have difficulty accessing them. If you do, feel free to contact me at
< boerjf@hotmail.com >.
These two essays pretty well represent my basic perspective on the question of religion vs science/evolution. Though fundamentalists among scientists and their counterparts in religion sharply oppose and berate each other, you will find alternative positions in these essays that accept both as mutually supportive, though not in their extreme fundamentalist forms.
Well, didn’t get much farther today, but we’ll keep plugging away on the subject. You are now in a position to access wider discussions on our topic, within which these posts are offered you. These posts can well be regarded as summaries of those essays. So, read them if you have time, for then you will be able to follow these blogs more easily, perhaps predict them even.
Postscript
This postscript has been added to this post on the day I write Post 18. However, this post (17) is written during a time of considerable turmoil in Canada. For one thing, the Dalai Lama is visiting Vancouver and, secondly, there's been some terrible terrorist activities in the country. So, I decided that, since both science and religion will be around for a long time and can always be discussed, when important events like those two occur, I cannot postpone commenting on them. So, next post on the Dalai Lama. Then, the recent terrorist attacks and then back to science and religion--if some other important developments don't intervene. If nothing else, according to the Dutch proverb, "Verandering van spijs doet eten." That is to say a change in diet keeps things from getting dull and encourages eating. Not sure that's always true, but in this case, a handy sentiment.
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