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BACKPACK RADIO: Episode #214 [October 26, 2014]
Sometimes my kids, all earnest and curious about the world, ask me random questions like, “How far away is the moon?” and “Where are snakes’ butts?”
Inevitably, I’ll answer, “Ask your dad.”
Yeah, I’m that kind of
mom.
Early on, I made sure my kids knew what daddy did for a
living. When the fridge would break, the eldest declared, “Daddy will fix it!
He’s a scientist!” When a battery needed to be changed, the little one would—as
instructed—dump it on his desk to wait for his return home. “Daddy’s a
scientist! He can do it!”
You’ve got that one
right, kid!
True. I married a scientist, and I did it so I never had to
change a light bulb again.
Why they never want to know whether or not a verb agrees
with its subject, I don’t know. Why they do not want to listen to a
spontaneous, albeit fascinating, lecture on the modern novel, I’m not sure.
Really, they just want to hear about the mysterious,
elusive, seemingly intangible snake butt.
And, well, you know what I’m thinking: I don’t give a rat’s a## about that. Let’s talk Hemingway, Mark Twain.
Ah, well, science!
I had the opportunity to be among the live audience for this
show, and I’m so terribly thankful for guys like Jonathan Sarfati of Creation Ministries, who was on hand to
celebrate Backpack Radio’s Fourth Anniversary. I’m thankful for the way Sarfati
and others have worked so hard, so tirelessly—often in the face of academic
ridicule that is painful and downright nasty—to show Truth.
I actually listened to this broadcast (on computer for the
second time) immediately before I listened to Episode #5 on “The New AtheisticMorality” (from October 2010). I happen to also be reading this other book by
Nancy Pearcey called Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from
Its Cultural Captivity. My hope is to write another reflection on Episode#5 soon, and a semi-official/really-kind-of-informal book review of Pearcey
later. Taken together, however, there’s an interesting and important message
for Christians. We’re talking worldview. People like Sarfati and other
scientists are on the front lines, so to speak, of a raging battle between
presuppositions. I think it brave, frankly, to be so forthright.
I was pretty much raised as a creationist. I distinctly
remember one instrumental book I read during my Christian high school
education: The
Genesis Flood by Whitcomb and Morris. I really don’t know how the book has
weathered the years, but I do know that when I officially became an “adult” and
owned my own bookshelves, I went ahead and made sure I had that book on them.
The real science impressed me.
In college, I remember the early scoffing. There were two
separate occasions when I admitted that I thought that God created the world
and we did not evolve from apes. I remember these two instances, especially,
because I was on the road during both of them. Traveling with friends. Talking.
No doubt getting into it because people talk about big stuff on the road, and
we were college kids. We had ideas, and a few of us said we believed in God—I
was not the only one. But when I said that I did not believe in Darwinism, the
mouths of friends dropped open. Seriously!
You believe in Adam and Eve?!?
The not-so-subtle implication was that only idiots believe
in creationism.
What I admire so much about Sarfati and other scientists
like him is his willingness to work faithfully in a pretty hostile environment.
Why would one do this? What compels such work? What kind of understanding does
this involve?
I hope that listeners fully engage with this material. My
guess is that many, many people—the religious and the irreligious alike—would
be surprised (really surprised!) by the intellectual rigor and integrity and
stamina involved in this kind of hardcore scientific work.
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Written by Jennifer Bell
