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Faith and Science in the 21st Century
Week 2
God and Cosmos
The Rev. Dr. Ted Peters
BEFORE CLASS
LISTEN TO RECORDED SERMON
BEFORE CLASS REFLECTIONS
God and Cosmos
CLASS
WELCOME
PRAY
READ
Psalm 8
Lord, our Lord, how majestic
is your name throughout the earth!
You made your glory higher than heaven![b]
2 From the mouths of nursing babies
you have laid a strong foundation
because of your foes,
in order to stop vengeful enemies.
3 When I look up at your skies,
at what your fingers made—
the moon and the stars
that you set firmly in place—
4 what are human beings
that you think about them;
what are human beings
that you pay attention to them?
5 You’ve made them only slightly less than divine,
crowning them with glory and grandeur.
6 You’ve let them rule over your handiwork,
putting everything under their feet—
7 all sheep and all cattle,
the wild animals too,
8 the birds in the sky,
the fish of the ocean,
everything that travels the pathways of the sea.
9 Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the earth!
REFLECT/ DISCUSS (5 minutes)
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REFLECT/ DISCUSS (10 minutes)
Peters mentions in his sermon that:
. . . most astrophysicists agree that our universe began with a Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago and that it may expand for another 50 to 100 billion years before it burns out like a candle.
NOTE
Peters mentions the Anthropic Principle in his sermon: According to the Anthropic Principle, the initial conditions were such that intelligent life would eventually evolve. It appears that our early universe was fine-tuned so as to prepare physics for evolving biology and prepare biology for evolving intelligence.
Astronomy professor and scientist Owen Gingerich offers a response to this idea: I accept that the physical constants have been fine-tuned to make intelligent life in the universe possible and that this is evidence for the planning and intentions of a Creator God.
PRAYER
O God of our creation and our redemption, you’ve created a cosmos of such beauty, magnificence, and mystery. We thank you for our very existence, for the privilege of living as your beloved creatures. We thank you also for the message of the gospel, for the promise of the forgiveness of sins and the resurrection into your new creation. Inspire within our souls a divine love for all that you are making. Amen.
NEXT TIME
Reflect on the principles of evolution, as well as on the biblical stories of creation.
• How does each of these ways of thinking of the world satisfy you?
• Think about how these two explanations might be compatible.
Peter M Wallace. Faith and Science in the 21st Century (Kindle Location 445). Church Publishing Inc.. Kindle Edition.
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