sastark
Puritan Board Graduate
This last Saturday was the final meeting of my "Advanced Seminar on Philosophy and Cosmology" class at Biola. During class, I asked some questions that revealed some doubts I have about Intelligent Design (not the fact that the universe was designed, but more about the "neutral" approach ID takes to the Designer - "It" could be the God of the Bible, or Allah, or Vishnu, or some alien who designed life on this planet. ID is agnostic when it comes to the Designer.)
Anyway, after class some of the students wanted to talk to me more about my questions, and I ended up staying for at least an hour discussing what I view as major problems with ID (namely: that it is not based on the presupposition of the truth of Scripture). We were going back and forth when one of the students quoted the Belgic Confession! Needless to say, I wasn't expecting this from a Biola student! Well, it turns out that this man is also a student at Westminster, and is in Dr. Clark's Medieval-Reformation course. He was also able to correctly diagnose my Van Tillian presuppositional approach to ID.
So, I post this to make you all aware of the good work that WSC and Dr. Clark are doing! Dr. Clark, your students are applying the things you are teaching outside of the classroom. Give this man some extra credit!
Anyway, after class some of the students wanted to talk to me more about my questions, and I ended up staying for at least an hour discussing what I view as major problems with ID (namely: that it is not based on the presupposition of the truth of Scripture). We were going back and forth when one of the students quoted the Belgic Confession! Needless to say, I wasn't expecting this from a Biola student! Well, it turns out that this man is also a student at Westminster, and is in Dr. Clark's Medieval-Reformation course. He was also able to correctly diagnose my Van Tillian presuppositional approach to ID.
So, I post this to make you all aware of the good work that WSC and Dr. Clark are doing! Dr. Clark, your students are applying the things you are teaching outside of the classroom. Give this man some extra credit!