Re: Fw: Ohio Votes 13-5 to Adopt Lesson Plan Critical ofEvolution

A little clarification...my first sentence should read as such:

If there was ever any viewpoint that best demonstrated a lack of
intelligence in God, it is the most definitely _not_ the TE view--a view
that recognizes and appreciates His complex and intricate creative ability
over millions of years.

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From: "Phillip Jones" <pcjones5@comcast.net>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Ohio Votes 13-5 to Adopt Lesson Plan Critical ofEvolution

> Denyse wrote:
> >> TE usually seems to mean that there is no evidence for God's
intelligence
> or agency in the world we see. Faith is then an exercise in irrational
> choice. <<
>
> If there was ever any viewpoint that best demonstrated a lack of
> intelligence in God, it is the most definitely _not_ the TE view that
> recognizes and appreciates His complex and intricate creative ability over
> millions of years. No, the award goes to the view that God waved a magic
> wand for a week and *poof* God created.
>
> >> In other words, theistic evolutionism is a classic "modernist" point
of
> view. Science is rational but faith is not. <<
>
> If I understand you correctly, you think TE attempts to replace faith with
> empirical science. Yet, it is quite the contrary. While YEC and some ID
> leaders push faith toward absurdity by asking Christians to have faith in
> the claim that the thousands of pro-evolutionary scientific findings are
> invalid, TE attempts to defend faith by showing that empirical data points
> to a high probability for the existence of our Creator.
>
> I agree that critical thinking toward "Darwinism" (I take it you meant
> atheistic evolution) should not be ignored. But for the cause of Christ it
> seems best to aim critical thinking towards those who practice a
> questionable hermeneutical method by interpreting Genesis in absence of
> authorial intent and thus neglect the theological meaning of the text. The
> publicity from the YEC movement has probably done more damage for the
cause
> of Christ than any publicized pastoral infidelity controversy, and has
left
> the intellectual crowd wondering if Christians are at all aware of the
> concept of critical thinking.
>
> The equating of evolution to atheism has a resounding gong that I
encounter
> every time I attend an amateur astronomy event. Scientifically inclined
> people choose not to believe in God, or to ignore the gift of Salvation
> because they have been led to believe it is not compatible with their
> understanding of science.
>
> -Phil
>
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Received on Mon Mar 15 21:56:14 2004