My daughter picked up The Da Vinci Code while we were vacationing in Italy including visiting the Vatican. I look forward to some opportunities to talk about faith. One came about on the plane home as she was reading it and I was reading a special addition of a magazine on how we descended from apes. I picked up that she was thinking that evolution was incompatible somehow with Christian belief. I don't think she has learned how scientific knowledge does not have to diminish your belief in God or conflict with our faith. I talked about how the belief that the Earth revolved around the Sun was threatening to the church since the created order by God puts earth at the center. No one worries about that now but evolution is a similar issue. If your God consists of things science can't explain, then God gets smaller with each scientific discovery. I hope we have some more opportunities before she leaves for college in August. We haven't had enough talks like this. I wanted to talk more about the wonder that is a God that infuses everything including us.
Maybe I will get a change to read the book so we can discuss.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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