Theistic evolution… a possibility for believers?

by Jonathan on June 21, 2011

I found Andy Naselli’s post on the new book Should Christians Embrace Evolution: Biblical & Scientific Responses very interesting. He quotes from Wayne Grudem’s forward, who offers a great critique of theistic evolution:

Evolution is secular culture’s grand explanation, the overriding ‘meta-narrative’ that sinners accept with joy because it allows them to explain life without reference to God, with no accountability to any Creator, no moral standards to restrain their sin, ‘no fear of God before their eyes’ (Rom. 3:18)—and now theistic evolutionists tell us that Christians can just surrender to this massive attack on the Christian faith and safely, inoffensively, tack on God, not as the omnipotent God who in his infinite wisdom directly created all living things, but as the invisible deity who makes absolutely no detectable difference in the nature of living beings as they exist today. It will not take long for unbelievers to dismiss the idea of such a God who makes no difference at all. To put it in terms of an equation, when atheists assure us that matter + evolution + 0 = all living things, and then theistic evolutionists answer, no, that matter + evolution + God = all living things, it will not take long for unbelievers to conclude that, therefore, God = 0.

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Terrence J. Boyd June 26, 2011 at 9:02 am

Good job, Jon. I like your comments about cultivating friendships too. Yep, people need to see us as normal people interested in them. Keep up the good work. Greet the Carters and Medinas for us, and Edwardo & Marie of Carmen. Give the fam a big hug for us. Praying every day for you. Love, Dad

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