Re: ASA positions on science/faith issues

Ted,

I read the piece and think it's a great perspective to share with
families and students. One term brought a question to mind that I
have thought about throwing out to the list from time to time (not to
take us away from Randy's very important question, hopefully).

It's the term "continuous creation" as one of the varietes of
old-earth creation along side "progessive creation" and "theistic
evolution". I think that Keith Miller also uses this term to describe
his flavor of evolutionary creation.

I'm wondering if anyone knows the history of this term and how it
came to be used to mean what I think your document and Keith means it
to mean. In my reading of various systematic theologies, "continuous
creation" means that God re-creates the universe moment-by-moment
giving only the appearance of continuity of existence. This is
rejected as heresy (and different from a doctrine of sustenance). I'm
not suggesting that Messiah's document or Keith is using the term in
this sense.

Just a semantic curiosity for the most part.

TG

>If/when the ASA considers making a formal statement on this, it might
>perhaps have some of the elements of the statement we use at Messiah. Here
>is the link: http://www.messiah.edu/departments/bioscience/origins.shtml
>
>ted

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