There’s young-earth creationists and there’s die hard evolutionists. Then there’s theistic evolutionists who try to have their cake and eat it too. They think you can believe in two contradictory things at once. I’ve read a bit of TE and I’ve come to the conclusion that you can’t and that in the end Biblical Christianity suffers.
I did an article for my Wordpress site (see signature below) critiquing some of the TE writers I knew and I didn’t find any good way anybody can link the two. Actually, TEists were quite willing to allow fundamental Christian beliefs to suffer in order to prop up belief in evolution.
In particular, biologist Kenneth Miller, a prolific writer willing to put the blinders on, was asked, Doulos, a Christian magazine, and republished at the godofevolution web site, was asked if he believed that evolution was guided by God or by random processes God created. Miller’s answer to both questions was “no.” In that case there really is nothing for God to do. His answer was that the most satisfying view of God is that God is the master of everything, including nature. However, the Biblical God who creates is not the God Miller believes in. The god Miller believes in is a god who does nothing.
Evolutionist Stephen Gould tried to combine evolution with creation and ended up arguing that evolution falls under science whereas the net of religion, he says, extends over questions of meaning or value. Apparently to Gould creationists don’t make or can’t make any arguments about what is true in the world as in, say, what happened in the ancient past.
Sometimes, TEists “discover” that some things that fall within the realm of evolution are explained very well if you graft creationist arguments onto them. Either way, the “facts” of evolution are taken as a given and creationists ideas are used to prop them up. He finds, amazingly, that the existence of evil is better explained by an evolving universe and ongoing creation. Apparently he thinks God didn’t finish His work in 6 days contrary to what the Bible says.
So if you really care about your Christian faith, don’t embrace this belief system. Your faith will end up suffering.
I did an article for my Wordpress site (see signature below) critiquing some of the TE writers I knew and I didn’t find any good way anybody can link the two. Actually, TEists were quite willing to allow fundamental Christian beliefs to suffer in order to prop up belief in evolution.
In particular, biologist Kenneth Miller, a prolific writer willing to put the blinders on, was asked, Doulos, a Christian magazine, and republished at the godofevolution web site, was asked if he believed that evolution was guided by God or by random processes God created. Miller’s answer to both questions was “no.” In that case there really is nothing for God to do. His answer was that the most satisfying view of God is that God is the master of everything, including nature. However, the Biblical God who creates is not the God Miller believes in. The god Miller believes in is a god who does nothing.
Evolutionist Stephen Gould tried to combine evolution with creation and ended up arguing that evolution falls under science whereas the net of religion, he says, extends over questions of meaning or value. Apparently to Gould creationists don’t make or can’t make any arguments about what is true in the world as in, say, what happened in the ancient past.
Sometimes, TEists “discover” that some things that fall within the realm of evolution are explained very well if you graft creationist arguments onto them. Either way, the “facts” of evolution are taken as a given and creationists ideas are used to prop them up. He finds, amazingly, that the existence of evil is better explained by an evolving universe and ongoing creation. Apparently he thinks God didn’t finish His work in 6 days contrary to what the Bible says.
So if you really care about your Christian faith, don’t embrace this belief system. Your faith will end up suffering.
