Then there is the fact that the different types of TE (a term I likewise dislike)
will talk to each other about these differences. We don't pretend that there are
no differences. This is fairly important when the opinions covered are so
diverent, especially on some very important issues. The discussions are open as
well.
Do such discussions go on in the other big tent of ID though? I does not seem
so. Moonies and YECs and catholics and mainstream protestants all seem to agree
not to mention their differences in theology, at least not in public.
Jon
Keith B Miller wrote:
> >As for TE, that's an even bigger tent, in some ways. Let me elaborate. On
> >the one hand, TE is much smaller b/c everyone by definition more or less
> >accepts evolution and what comes with it (big bang, old earth, common
> >ancestry, figurative interpretation of Genesis if the Bible is considered at
> >all). And everyone is some type of theist (probably, though if I think hard
> >I might change my mind). On the other hand, the tent is mighty big
> >theologically. <snip>
>
> I agree. That is why many of us who are given the "theistic evolutionist"
> label don't like it. However, it becomes tiring to keep trying to present
> and defend a different terminology. I for example, much prefer the term
> "continuous creation" to describe my view. Others like "evolutionary
> creationist" and others use still other labels. Part of the problem with
> the rhetoric coming from some ID proponents is a result of lumping all
> "theistic evolutionists" together and attributing to them a basically
> deistic understanding of God's action.
>
> There is also the confusion generated by having commonality with people on
> educational or scientific issues, while differing substantially on
> theological issues.
>
> I guess we just need to keep dogedly trying to make clear our own
> theological understandings.
>
> Keith
>
> Keith B. Miller
> Department of Geology
> Kansas State University
> Manhattan, KS 66506
> kbmill@ksu.edu
> http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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