Just Something to Think About

I'm definitely not trying to start an argument one way or another, because I haven't put much thought into it myself, but when I got back from class and started doing some reading for my Biblical History and Literature class, I was reminded of something Leeper said in class. When we touched on evolution v. creation, he basically said that we often consider the two things to be at completely opposite ends of the spectrum, and that religion and evolution can't have anything to do with each other. He went on to say that he trusts the science of it - the facts, but that's not to say that God wasn't behind human evolution. God created the world, so wouldn't it be in his power to use science to create the world and the life on it? In my BitHitLit class, we've discussed how Genesis 1, and the chapters that follow it, could be a narrative myth that stands for the creation of the world in general, that has a story deeper than the creation of Earth itself (our role as humans and our relationships with God, the world, others, and ourselves). In the book we are reading, The Drama of Scripture by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen, on pg. 62, the authors talk about the plagues God sent to Egypt when the Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites. They mention that there are people who argue all sorts of scientific explanations that account for many of these plagues, which build upon each other and have sort of a domino effect. After they presented that argument, they said something that I found really poignant:

"It may well be that this kind of understanding of the plagues is correct. What we must not do, however, is to resort to a merely naturalistic understanding of them, in which God cannot be explained naturally. God sustains the whole of creation in existence, and the laws of nature are part of his order for creation."

I don't know if what I'm saying right now makes any sense to you, because I'm kind of winging it and trying to put it into words as it's coming to me. Maybe you're reading this like

 I just wanted to throw this out there for people to take into consideration in their own time; this isn't a film related post, which I'll do later, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.