Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

If it is possible to help diffuse the tension, let me do so by trying to understand what the disagreement is about.
   
  “The thread started with the yet to be proven assertion that God prefers the learned… George is saying wisdom comes after salvation and Rich F. the other way around.” – Rich B.
   
  Please check the thread title to see that you are missing a piece; this is not where the thread started.
   
  Rich F. says “wisdom and intelligence run along a continuum” and since evolutionary methodology is about uncovering and discovering continuity, thus wisdom and intelligence are said to ‘evolve.’ It should be granted that wisdom and intelligence are not ‘reducible’ to mere biological or even purely physical elements. Nevertheless, Rich is saying, it seems, that infants do God’s will because it is instinctive (because they are more innocent?), i.e. that it spiritual evolution. Is this right? Bottom line – Rich’s ‘Darwinian analysis’ concludes: no continuum, no evolution.
   
  George quotes Scripture to show that wiser is not necessarily better, higher, or ‘more evolved.’ He is suggesting the Darwinian ‘continuum’ is contradicted by Biblical wisdom, noting in the case of children, that God has “hidden these things from the wise and intelligent.” Therefore, a continuum such as that displayed by Rich’s argument (cf. evolutionary philosophy) is inapplicable. Salvation is not a condition/gift of being ‘more evolved’ or ‘more enlightened’ (the second is my addition), but rather of faith and works, which are not mere products of evolution. Thus, we must separate faith and works from evolution. People are neither mere cosmological nor physical constructs, but holistic beings that possess both continuous and discontinuous features.
   
  Gregory
  
 
  
Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com> wrote:
       
  I said:

        The thread started with the yet unproven assertion that God prefers the learned.

   
  I meant:
   
  The thread started with the yet to be proven assertion that God prefers the learned.

                 
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Received on Mon Jul 17 17:34:11 2006