07.23.08
Creation of creationism
From The Times Literary Supplement July 23, 2008
Today’s brand of Protestant extremism should worry theologians as well as scientistsJohn Habgood
Belief in creation is a way of acknowledging that the fact of existence is not self-explanatory. That anything exists at all is an ultimate and unfathomable mystery, and it is this mystery at the point where explanations come to an end that religions have usually identified as God. This can claim to be a rational belief, not vulnerable to scientific refutation, since all assertions about the objectivity and truth of science must themselves depend on belief in some form of reality which is simply “givenâ€.