Kind: captions
Language: en
Um I'm Lisa Miller. I'm the religion
editor at Newsweek.
Um tonight's discussion is called
science and faith complimentary or
contradictory. And the questions um I
sort of want to elicit answers to are
are questions about the intersection of
faith and science. I'm going to start
with Dr. Forbes. Um
uh the movie shows um says that the
story of Exodus um can't be proven by
archaeology. How does that
um affect your faith?
When I believe
something strongly enough that it
impacts my
life, then its
meaning
is related to both
historical,
scientific, notice
spiritual and narrative and story.
So what makes my life function in a
particular way comes out of a mixture a
smoothie one might
call. If one element in the smoothie
that is scientific
verification is lacking. It will impact
me. I'd be disappointed. I'd not like
the taste of it. But if faith has been
derived from the mixture, the alteration
of the ingredients probably will simply
be a temporary disappointment and I'll
still find a way to affirm what has been
generally proven to be a way of life.
That's my answer to you. If the
Exodus did not happen as I've been
preaching it for 50
years, I'd find another way to show that
God is a God of liberation. That's my
sense on that. Would you still preach
the Exodus? I would still preach the
Exodus because what I preach today is a
combination of things that are told as
historical, but sometimes it's the
transcendent historical mode rather than
the concrete scientific mode. So I mean
I preach stuff all the time where if
somebody stopped me and say, "Did that
really happen?" I said, "Be quiet till I
get
So, so anyway, I think I think religious
leaders are always engaged in that which
is measured in time and space and
scientific vari verifiability and also
with a more transcendent thing. And it's
mixed up because life's that way.