A trinitarian facepalm for this, from a Bob Jones University Press grade school textbook (HT: Digg.)
Not having seen the book, I can’t be sure what is going on here. Here are some options:
- The writer is terribly uninformed.
- The writer is feigning ignorance in a misguided attempt to instill delight and wonder into science.
- The writers is feigning ignorance in an attempt to multiply “mysteries”. If there are a lot of “mysteries” (realities we don’t understand) in nature, then any theological mysteries will be unproblematic. Call this “innocence by association” apologetics.
- The writer is ham-handedly trying to make a (controversial) Kantian point about science – that it only reveals how things appear and not how they really are.
I’d like to believe that 1 is unlikely. It could be that all of 2-4 are going on here. Either way, this is clearly educational malpractice, especially the “All anyone knows is that…” part.
Anyone out there have the actual book?
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Oh dear.
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