TE/EC marginalised?

Jonathan Clarke (jdac@alphalink.com.au)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 07:25:58 +1000

In his second July 8th post Stephen Jones made the statement

'TE/EC is marginalised in *both* mainstream "science" and "theology"'.

Both TE and EC may be fuzzy terms, perhaps as fuzzy as ID. However, for
the sake of argument I take an TE or EC someone who believes that God
creates in the biological realm by way of evolutionary processes. In
this case the above statement cannot be sustained.

If we survey the present scene there are many leading theologians and
scientists who argue for TE/EC. Among the theologians there are people
such as Ted Peters, Mark Worthing, and Pope John Paul II. Among the
scientists Sam Berry, Gillian Prance, Franciso Ayala. Among those who
are both scientists and theologians there is Arthur Peacocke, John
Polkinghorne, and Robert Russell.

In the 19th century we have scientists such as Asa Gray and James Dana
and theologians like James Orr, B.B. Warfield, and James McCosh, as well
as activists like Charles Kingsley, who would today would be called
TE/EC.

We may disagree with the people if we wish, but we can hardly dismiss
them as marginalised in science or theology, either now or in the past.
If these folk are marginalised, then we need more marginalised people
like them.

God Bless

Jonathan