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From one of the churches mentioned in the article: https://www.c3sv.com/sites/default/files/statement_of_beliefs.pdf https://www.c3sv.com/sites/default/files/st

From one of the churches mentioned in the article: https://www.c3sv.com/sites/default/files/statement_of_beliefs.pdf https://www.c3sv.com/sites/default/files/statement_of_belief... How do people who are (probably) scientific-minded reconcile themselves with this sort of thing? I love community, and I'm actually fine with all the theological stuff. But evangelical zealotry like point 5 ("All people are lost and need a new birth through Christ.") turns me off strongly, and I hope it doesn't infuse people in the tech industry, like it has in Middle America.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m 12y ago
It isn’t “evangelical zealotry,” it’s fundamental (i.e. inspired by “The Fundamentals”). And it doesn’t reconcile. But that’s OK. However, many Christians have a far more liberal view of theology that does reconcile. If you’re interested in a computer science perspective: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html
dragonwriter 12y ago
> How do people who are (probably) scientific-minded reconcile themselves with this sort of thing? There's very little in that "statement of belief" that is even within the domain of empirically-explorable fact, so I don't see what being "scientific-minded" has to do with it, unless by that you mean something beyond using science to explore questions within its domain like the epistemological view that anything outside of the domain of science is to be rejected as a valid matter of belief.