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Thursday, March 18, 2010

How obvious?!

This being the fourth week of Lent, or is it the fifth because does Ask Wednesday count as week one...? Never mind, life's too short to worry about that. Anyway we've been going through some of the episodes of DreamThinkBeDo which as been good again.

We were looking at the Bible again. No surprise there then, obviously. I've heard what a number of the folk on the DVD say about a few of the ways that engage and interpret the bible with a more 'progressive' model many times. I say them  myself. I believe them myself. I've been thinking that all my life but something someone said on the DVD hit me again for the first time: The Bible is a human construct in the same way science is a human construct. Wow! Obviously! Of course! Why did you not make that connection before!?

Science is a way of trying to understand the world. It's a whole set of formulas and theories and ideas that try and make sense of what happens. And the Bible: a whole set of stories and theories that try and make sense of what happens in life.

As we learn new things in science the theories need to change to adapt and include some new discovery. Dark matter for example along with dark energy and dark flow (check out the BBC's Horizon programme). As we engage with the world, with new situations and circumstances, the stories need to evolve to enable us make sense and handle these new circumstances.

It was a new insight for me. Kind of obvious but a helpful way to look at it. Lots more to say about it but that's enough for now. Thoughts?

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