From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2003 - 12:19:19 EST
Robert Schneider wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Be assured that I will not fall for such a looney explanation.
> But I shall delete this nonsense from my mind while enjoying the sight
> of these craters, and the moonbeams I also enjoy will be of the
> literal kind.
>
> The notion that moon craters are a fall from the perfection of a
> perfect sphere sounds like a hangover from Aristotelian theory (curse
> Galileo and that telescope of his!). I have always been bemused by
> the sight of these creationists going to the wall to defend the
> doctrine (fixity of species) of this pagan philosopher. Let us pray
> that eventually they will come to recognize their own Fall, not from
> grace but from reality...........................................
I was just teaching a class on C.S. Lewis' "space trilogy" today and am reminded
that he makes use of this idea - as he does of a number of other themes & images of
medieval cosmology. However, he wasn't trying to present that as a scientific
alternative to modern astronomy. The point was rather than modern science doesn't
determine our larger worldview. Lewis was, of course, not a fundamentalist & accepted
biological evolution as a scientific theory.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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