Re: Pilgrims' Notes

Douglas McAdam wrote:
> I'm taking this from my understanding of what the Master wrote in SAQ.
> Also I seem to recall an article in the WO Mag by a scholar that was
titled something like Man, Distinctly Human.

I don't recall that article. Can you summarize it?

> Are you saying that science is absolutely correct in its theory of
evolution? Are we just highly evolved animals? Where does our
intelligence come from? Was it always there in mineral, vegetable and
> animal but it needed evolution to appear in humans?

I am saying two things: First, that I don't believe `Abdu'l-Baha was
directly discussing evolution (other than as an analogy for spiritual
involution). Second, that, even if I did believe `Abdu'l-Baha was
promoting a type of old-earth, or progressive, creationism, I would not
give His comments scientific authority. Ideas, like the Virgin Birth for
instance, can have scriptural authority without having historical or
scientific authority.

> I seem to recall the term "distinctly human" in an article in the WO
Mag. some years back. Course we can say that our understanding of all
> this is better now than when that article appeared. But then we also
must admit our current understanding is temporary.

My understanding is that revealed religion and the sciences have their
own particular domains of authority, and that those domains should
remain separate.

--
Regards, Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. * http://www.markfoster.net
"... the modern challenge is how to live with uncertainty. The
basic fault lines today are not between people with different
beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an
element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with
a pretense of certitude." — Peter L. Berger, sociologist





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