If you listened to part 1 of God created the world, what in your opinion should be addressed in part 2? I want the starting point this week to be Colossians 1:15ff. and John 1. Jesus is the creative agent of creation, he is the designer, the way things work in this world is the actualization of his imagination.
What do you think of Intelligent Design? I am tending to agree with some who say that Intelligent Design is another version of "god of the gaps" - in that we take whatever Scientists can't explain (irreducible complexity) and we use this as proof of God. Seems to me to be a dangerous idea (as soon as the good work of science explains what you've been pointing to, you God is gone). Delighting in unexplainable phenomena as proof of God seems non-sensical. Because in the end, don't we delight in everything as created by God, even what Scientists have been able to explain? And if Scientists can't presently explain something, does that change anything? Doesn't it just mean they haven't yet been able to describe the details of the actualization of Jesus' imagination.
dan
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