At 01:39 PM 1/12/99 +0000, you wrote:
>The following is today's section of the new catechism for the
>Presbyterian Church (USA): Is it naive?
>
>The Study Catechism
>
>Tuesday, 12 January 1999
>
>
>Question 27. Does your confession of God as Creator contradict the
>findings of modern science?
>
>No. My confession of God as Creator answers three questions: Who?,
>How? and Why? It affirms that (a) the triune God, who is
>self-sufficient, (b) called the world into being out of nothing by the
>creative power of God's Word (c) for the sake of sharing love and
>freedom. Natural science has much to teach us about the particular
>mechanisms and processes of nature, but it is not in a position to
>answer these questions about ultimate reality, which point to
>mysteries that science as such is not equipped to explore. Nothing
>basic to the Christian faith contradicts the findings of modern
>science, nor does anything essential to modern science contradict the
>Christian faith.
>
[snip]
To me the virginal conception of Jesus may be explainable by modern biology
but Christ's and Lazarus' resurrections and many of Christ's other miracles
might stretch the "Nothing basic to the Christian faith contradicts the
findings of modern science, nor does anything essential to modern science
contradict the Christian faith" past what I could agree with. I think one
would have to play games with either the basics of Christianity or science
(or both).
John