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Memory lane: Which ID conference would this one be?

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Mary Grabar, writing on the “Cultural illiteracy of Christopher Hitchens” (July 1, 2007), noted,

Reading Milton led me back to the Bible. The late Walker Percy allowed for the idea of evolution. But he, like the proponents of intelligent design that I met at a Christian Faculty Forum at The University of Georgia, read the Bible not literally, like an instruction manual, but allowed for the possibility of a metaphorical meaning that went beyond their understanding. Shakespeare revealed the evil of atheism through characters like Iago. Flannery O’Connor demonstrated how her characters’ estimations of their own goodness provided the opening for Satanic influences. Dostoyevsky exposed the evils of pride and self-devised “justice.”

Anyone recall the conference?

Of course, since then Mr. Hitchens has become much more a subject of public empathy than condemnation.

(Note: There is an instruction manual in the Bible, actually, cf. The Book of Proverbs, but there you will get practical advice like

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest. )

Interestingly, whoever wrote that must have noticed that the queen ant does not really govern the colony; she only lays eggs.

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