Since I have already dealt Biblically with the issue of homosexuality, I would like to skip down to questions 5 & 6 which are interrelated. They are posed and answered as follows:
There’s much debate about whether science and religion can comfortably coexist. You’re a scientist and a pastor. What do you think?
Oh, they absolutely can. In the Middle Ages, theology was called the queen of the sciences. It asks a set of questions about human existence, about why we’re here and how we should be in relationship with our neighbors and with the divine. And science, in this more traditional understanding, is about looking at creation and trying to understand how it functions.What is your view on intelligent design?
I firmly believe that evolution ought to be taught in the schools as the best witness of what modern science has taught us. To try to read the Bible literalistically (sic) about such issues disinvites us from using the best of recent scholarship.
If there is anything that furthers our understanding of where Schori lands on the authority of Scripture it is in these answers. “Science” has become a joke. What was once based on fact, now teaches theory as fact. The improvable has become what is concrete. If modern science has taught us anything, it has taught us to throw out what can be discovered in favor of what has been proven to be archaic. Why are Evolutionists unwilling to let go of Darwin when in fact provable science has brought us far beyond that with the discovery of DNA and the complexity of the Human Body.
My point is this, if they want to call Biblical literalism fantasy, they need to allocate their own belief system to the same category. Intelligent Design (ID) does not necessarily mean that someone is giving credence to the Biblical account of creation, they could make the Designer an alien if they want to, the issue is that everybody has their “folk science” idea of how it came about. Do I need science to back up all the claims of Scripture in order for me to understand Scripture as valid? Absolutely not! Why? Science is flawed. Just because they think they have it figured out, doesn’t mean they do. Look at the history of science to see what we have come up with (i.e. “Hey stick a leech on him that ought to fix him right up!”) Now that we have verifiable evidence that we were created intelligently, we run back to Galapagos and the late 1900s and cry that a theory explains all of this. Either way, both perspectives are based on faith not fact, and I’m going to put all my trust that God got it right.
Schori is a dichotomist; she is a modernist or a relativist whenever it suits her needs. One thing is for sure, she does not see Scripture as Scripture proclaims itself. 2 Timothy 3:16 says, “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.” (NASB)
