AIOCS Conversations #33: Graeme Finlay's A Freed Man’s Worship, part 8

The eighth conversation with Dr Graeme Finlay about his poem "A Freed Man’s Worship: The Point of It All," published as an appendix to his article "The Primal Testament: Parallels between Evolutionary and Biblical History." The article was recently published in Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology (the ISCAST journal), and can be accessed gratis both as webpage and PDF, the latter including the pagination. doi.org/10.589...
This conversation focuses on stanzas fifteen and sixteen of the poem, "Science" and "Eschaton," respectively, addressing, first, the topic of science as divine gift, despite the problems modern science has brought with it. But scientific reductionism and its less positive outcomes cannot take away from it the fact that it is a wonderful contributor to our experience in the here and now, including as believers. Second, the discussion focuses upon the bright perspective of a world renewed and made beautiful, or endowed with a beauty that transcends the ephemeral of our current experience. In this context, Graeme and Doru reflected upon the possibility of reading Genesis 1-2 through an eschatological lens, as the prophecy of beauty and joy for all creation in the age to come. Towards the end, Graeme shared a few more verses, written in memoriam of his wife, Jean, a paean to beauty as a promise of joy imperishable.
Bio: Graeme Finlay is retired from teaching scientific pathology at the University of Auckland and is a lay preacher. He has written Human Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The Gospel According to Dawkins (Austin-Macauley, 2017), Evolution and Eschatology (Wipf and Stock, 2021), and God’s Gift of Science (Wipf and Stock, 2022).
20 August 2024
Host: Doru Costache
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The previous conversation with Graeme can be found here:
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