Are We Wired to Believe in God? - No Nonsense Spirituality | Britt Hartley
Why do autistic people tend to believe in God less often — and what does that reveal about the origin of religion itself? In this video, Brit Hartley from No-Nonsense Spirituality dives deep into psychology, evolution, and the autistic mind to explore whether autism can serve as a control group for understanding belief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hbRcU1K70A
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Francis Pieper, "Christian Dogmatics" St Louis: Concordia, 1950 (orig German pub 1917).-->
"Men who presume to correct God's record of the creation through conclusions drawn from the present condition of the world are playing the role of scientific wiseacres, a procedure unworthy of Christians, as well as of men in general. The discord among professional geologists, for example, as to the age of the earth and of man is so great that only he will speak of 'assured results' of geology who has completely renounced the use of what reason is left to man after the Fall." (vol. 1, page 467)
Pieper was the core dogmatics textbook when I went to seminary in the late 1970s. It's still highly regarded in my church family of origin. [And this quote is, of course, both tangential to and symptomatic of the author's and church body's main focus on the Gospel.]
> ... there has always been a conflict between religion and science; and in the second place, both religion and science have always been in a state of continual development... Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
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