Theological Implications of Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design: Emerging Tendencies of Scientism and Agnosticism

Nieminen, Petteri; Mustonen, Anne‐Mari; Ryökäs, Esko

doi:10.1080/14746700.2014.927256

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“…This can lead to the scenario, where isolated citations of scientists that would out-of-context support the religious interpretation are repeated as evidence while disregarding other data that would be available. 65 For instance, young-earth creationists promote the view that the world was created in six 24-h days circa 6500 years ago, as depicted in Genesis. They maintain that "Genesis is history, not poetry, parable, prophetic vision, or mythology."…”

Section: Confirmation Bias As a General Feature Of Religion?mentioning

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Nature of Evidence in Religion and Natural Science

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Regardless of the model for identifying the relationship between science and religion-conflict, independence, dialogue, integrationinsufficient attention has been given to the way evidence is processed in each field. Whereas religious claims are based on experiential evidence, scientific claims are based on experimental evidence. Recognizing this difference, the independence or twolanguage model along with the ethical alliance model would be the most fitting basis for future religion-science interaction.

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“…We acknowledge that the Biblical texts can and do offer many alternative interpretations that are sometimes mutually incompatible. For instance, the first chapter of the Bible (Genesis 1) has produced both the doctrine of young‐earth creationism, with a literal creation within six days approximately 6,000 years ago, old‐earth creationism that interprets Biblical “days” as long periods of time, and various metaphorical interpretations for the proponents of intelligent design and theistic evolution (reviewed in Nieminen and Mustonen ; Nieminen, Mustonen, and Ryökäs ; Nieminen, Ryökäs, and Mustonen ). The texts selected above concentrate on the possibility of the Biblical deity having qualities that would not be compatible with the development of true beliefs.…”

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Biblical and Theistic Arguments Against the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

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Alvin Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism states that evolution cannot produce warranted beliefs. In contrast, according to Plantinga, Christian theism provides (I) properly functioning cognitive faculties in (II) an appropriate cognitive environment, in accordance with (III) a design plan aimed at producing true beliefs. But does theism fulfill criteria I-III? Judging from the Bible, God employs deceit in his relations with humanity, rendering our cognitive functions unreliable (I). Moreover, there is no reason to suppose that God's purpose would be to produce true beliefs in humans (III). Finally, from the theistic/religious perspective, it is impossible to tell whether observations have natural or supernatural causes, which undermines an appropriate cognitive environment (II). Reliable identification of deceit or miracles could alleviate these problems, but the theistic community has failed to resolve this issue. Dismissal of parts of the Bible, or attempts to find alternative interpretations, would collapse into skepticism or deism. Thus, Plantinga's problem of epistemic warrant backfires on theism.

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Diaconia - A Make-Believe Which Continues?

Ryökäs

2015

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Theological Implications of Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design: Emerging Tendencies of Scientism and Agnosticism

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Nature of Evidence in Religion and Natural Science

Nature of Evidence in Religion and Natural Science

Biblical and Theistic Arguments Against the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

Diaconia - A Make-Believe Which Continues?

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