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Brettongarcia

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2. Natural theology is great; too bad Catholicism ruined it for so long

Reply to dmallind (Original post)

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 05:45 PM

Feb 2012

Natural theology was there, even in the Founders: we are to follow the "laws of Nature and Nature's God."

But unfortunately? Natural theogy got a bad name in academe - when Catholic dogmatists misused it. They did not really try to honestly derive God from observation of Nature, but simply asserted that all their traditional doctrines were verified by nature ... without citing any convincing evidence. And? Ignoring lots of contrary evidence.

Barth tried to kill it off too.

But? In my opinion, its the wave of the future.

God returns to earth, to "flesh," when religion returns to scientific observation of the natural world says Dr. Woodbridge Goodman.

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