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If We Take Seriously The Word-flesh Christology Of Chalcedon (i.e., The Doctrine That Christ Is Fully Human And Fully Divine) And View Christ As The Telos Toward Which God Is Drawing The Whole Of Creation, Then Any View Of The Sciences That Leaves Christ Out Of The Picture Must Be Seen As Fundamentally Deficient.

Naturalism Is The View That The Physical World Is A Self-contained System That Works By Blind, Unbroken Natural Laws. Naturalism Doesn't Come Right Out And Say There's Nothing Beyond Nature. Rather, It Says That Nothing Beyond Nature Could Have Any Conceivable Relevance To What Happens In Nature. Naturalism's Answer To Theism Is Not Atheism But Benign Neglect. People Are Welcome To Believe In God, Though Not A God Who Makes A Difference In The Natural Order.

The Very Comprehensibility Of The World Points To An Intelligence Behind The World. Indeed, Science Would Be Impossible If Our Intelligence Were Not Adapted To The Intelligibility Of The World. The Match Between Our Intelligence And The Intelligibility Of The World Is No Accident. Nor Can It Properly Be Attributed To Natural Selection, Which Places A Premium On Survival And Reproduction And Has No Stake In Truth Or Conscious Thought. Indeed, Meat-puppet Robots Are Just Fine As The Output Of A Darwinian Evolutionary Process.

The Young Earth-solution To Reconciling The Order Of Creation With Natural History Makes Good Exegetical And Theological Sense. Indeed, The Overwhelming Consensus Of Theologians Up Through The Reformation Held To This View. I Myself Would Adopt It In A Heartbeat Except That Nature Seems To Present Such Strong Evidence Against It.

In God Becoming Human In Jesus Christ, God Has Established Solidarity With The Human Condition.