Re: [asa] Resolution affirming Creation and Evolution

Here's a silly comment from David Virtue (less) on the new Presiding
Bishop
and evolution. He also seems to have drunk deep from ID.

Note the false argument ; evolution.> relativism> gays.

Michael

*****

Without a doubt we'll know that we have been revived When we shall leave
this place So I asked the Bishop of Nevada what the role of the Holy
Spirit
is in the 75th General Convention.

"To keep us on our toes," she said, "sometimes off center, sometimes
to give
us a sense of comfort, and to keep us aware that God is always doing
a new
thing. When we become confident that we are absolutely too certain,
maybe it
is time to be concerned."

There is, underlying the idea about the Holy Spirit that seems to
predominate in the Episcopal Church-what classical Anglican writer
Dr. Peter
Toon has called the New Episcopal Church-a fervent relativism. Reality
changes. Confidence in certain things is dangerous. Red flags must
rise on
the occasion of assurance.

It comes of an understanding of humanity and of the creation deeply
impacted
by the Darwinian theory of evolution. Mankind evolves, and so does
truth,
and so do the necessities of life.

Bishop Jefferts Schori is an evolutionist, not only in philosophy and
theology, but in her training and career. She studied the evolution of
squids and octopi as an oceanographer. And as a priest and bishop,
Jefferts
Schori affirms the changing nature of God's spirit in the creation.

I asked her about how her work in the theory of evolution impacts her
theology of the Holy Spirit. "I believe in mystery and I believe God is
always at work," she said. "Evolution is no problem for me. That's how I
understand creation occurring."

To many clergy and laymen in Columbus this week, evolutionary
theology means
that Biblical truths are superceded by the higher truths of contemporary
revelation. Homosexual conduct may not have been moral in the time of
the
Apostles, goes the reasoning. But surely it is moral today.

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Received on Sun Jun 25 16:35:19 2006