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This talk will engage discussions on the roles of sciences and Christianity. Christian theology through the Church ought to welcome responsible articulations of scientific knowledge as natural scientists within and without the Church discover (investigate) divine disclosure (revelation). If science is discovery and theology is confessional, knowledge can only assume the status of wisdom when it becomes understanding. Knowledge shaped by wisdom provides true understanding. The Christian commitment to its convictional confession (CCC) lies at the center of any discovery of divine disclosure (DDD), which includes the natural and social sciences. From such an integration of knowledge ("what, why and how” questions) springs forth the resources for wisdom (“why” questions) to announce the Good News that Christ has come, Christ has risen, Christ is Lord indeed.

The talk will be held at The Financial Services Authority (FSA), Canary Wharf, London.

Christians tend not to answer the questions that bother a lot of them - whether the Bible can continue to be trusted in the age of science. Sometimes, our commitments to outdated interpretations of the Bible lead us to ignore better understanding of the world we live in. We forget that every generation of believers gain fresh insights into the revelation of God by paying attention to the discovery of divine disclosure - the very essence of human knowing.
Case studies:
1. The creation accounts of Genesis 1-3 are in full convergence with the broad principles of cosmogony (Q1) and biological evolution by natural selection (Q2)
2. The rise of humans from paleoanthropology are convergent with the account of humans made in the image of God (Q3)
3. The basic principles of scientific investigation are analogous to the basic principles of theological reflection. They both start from faith commitments to convictional confessions about the nature of reality. The starting point for the basis of the experimental method is the notion of linear time and the assumption of regularity in the universe - something or someone is in charge of universal order and nothing less than trust forms the basis of this belief, from which knowledge is formed