{"id":4952,"date":"2010-10-30T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2010-10-30T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T17:11:28","slug":"albert-mohler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/albert-mohler\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Mohler!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert Mohler serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary \u2014 the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world\u2014and he blogs. It\u2019s worth taking a look there from time to time.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> he is ruminating on the question of whether \u201cscience trumps the Bible\u201d (in some ways, a false dichotomy, but that\u2019s a discussion for another day):<\/p>\n

\u201c[C]ount me in as being lost to the assertion that science trumps the Bible \u201cabout the natural world\u201d or about anything else. In his original response to Jerry Coyne, Giberson made the argument in more striking words: \u201cEmpirical science does indeed trump revealed truth about the world as Galileo and Darwin showed only too clearly.\u201d That statement, with its reference to \u201crevealed truth,\u201d is even more shocking than the first.<\/p>\n

In the economy of a few words, Giberson throws the Bible under the scientific bus. We should be thankful that his argument is so clear, for it puts the case for theistic evolution in its proper light \u2014 as a direct attack upon biblical authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s interesting about this is not Mohler\u2019s biblical literalism, but the intensity of his assault on \u201cGiberson\u201d, a professor at East Nazarene College, and, clearly, no atheist. To make a public exhibition of your faith by attacking those somewhat further along the dial is a classic sectarian trait whether political or religious. And it\u2019s not going away.<\/p>\n

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New Mexico, January 1999 (photo: AS)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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