For most, the idea of combining faith and science sounds about as realistic as combining orange juice and toothpaste. For Charles Hartshorne, however, this is not the case. Hartshorne actually asserts that the two go hand in hand, feeding off of each other, creating somewhat of a balance. For instance, in Hartshorne’s Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, Hartshorne compares classical theism to the newer, more scientifically compatible, process theism. Not only, but since most issues with science arise from faith and vice versa, one of the best components to target these issues is through the idea of evolution. With all that said, instead of simply choosing evolution over god or vice versa, Hartshorne asserts that both coexist, seeing evolution simply as one of God’s vessels for creation. …show more content…
Hartshorne continues to consider fundamentalists as someone who “confuses worship of God with a worship of a certain set of ancient documents written (and translated) by human beings” (Hartshorne 65). Here, Hartshorne is quick to negate classical theism, seeing fundamentalists as people who take scripture too literally, closing themselves off from the true meaning of what God is. Furthermore, like stated prior, Hartshorne states that for most people there are only two choices: evolution without God. or God without evolution. Still, however, many Christians as well as followers of other theistic faiths agree that evolution is a basic as well as real component of biology. The main issue for Hartshorne is not the incompatibility of these two ideas, but rather the way these two ideas “appear” to be incompatible due to classical theistic thought and misconception about