Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
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At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
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Since Christianity had always been central to my life, the idea of testing my vocation and seeking ordination seemed a suitable second career.
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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
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