 | "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words" (John 5:46 & 47) |  |
The suggestion that life and man are the result of chance is incompatible with the biblical assertion of their being the direct result of intelligent creative activity. Despite the attempt by liberal theology to disguise the point, the fact is that no biblically derived religion can really be compromised with the fundamental assertion of Darwinian theory. Chance and design are antithetical concepts and the decline in religious belief can probably be attributed more to the propagation and advocacy by the intellectual and scientific community of the Darwinian version of evolution than to any other single factor. | |
"Theistic evolution," Dr. Moore said, "is the bad brother of both major models of origins. It satisfies neither the biblical account which seems to indicate that everything was created in six ordinary days, nor the evolutionary scheme, which needs no God". He went on to point out that Creationists disagree with theistic evolution because it proposes a time-consuming evolutionary process that isn't mentioned in the Scriptures. Theistic evolution also violates the creation principle of each form of life reproducing only "after its kind". Evolutionists disapprove because a crating God is included in a system that needs none; evolution, they assert, happened without a supervising force or a first cause.
A Compromise between creation and evolution is unnecessary. The biblical account of creation can be well-grounded scientifically and be used to satisfy all question, scientific and otherwise. |
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion ... The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but is irrational. | |
Many hold to evolution while at the same time espousing belief in a creator. The result is a sort of hybrid, a baptized evolution called theistic evolution.
Since theistic evolution rests upon the premise that evolution is true, the proof or disproof of this premise provides the means for checking the validity of theistic evolution might be true--not necessarily, but might. |
