Creative God

Yesterday, the Swedish philosopher Roland Poirier Martinsson published an article on creationism in Expressen. It is not quite clear, but I think he argues in favour of the idea that a god must have designed all forms of life against the Darwinist claim that all life forms evolve.

The topic is fascinating, and I have recently discovered that I am more open to the idea of a godlike force of nature than I was only a year ago. The cosmological arguments are appealing, not least for the comfort they offer: the thought of a big plan for human existence is easier to live with than the one claiming our existence to be a mere coincident. But my openness to creationist ideas is limited to the cause of the universe.

Dr Poirier Martinsson makes his argument a question of modernism and stuck-up biologists. A new Enlightenment is not approaching, he claims, and therefore should the scientists learn to co-exist with the Christian creationists. To me, this is difficult to comprehend, and impossible to accept academically. As I see it, Christianity is nothing but fiction. There is no evidence for the biblical tale of God’s creation of the world. It is wrong to make fictional fantasies equal to scientific research only because scientists cannot explain every detail of their theories. To be open to the idea of a god does not mean one has to even consider believing in the Bible. The concept of a creative god is far bigger than a loony old book.