Re: [asa] anti-evolutionism and deism

"What happens if God were to vanish tomorrow?
If you get an answer about humanity degenerating into irredeemable sin and
ever-increasing wickedness until we destroy each other and human life ceases
to exist (but the stars, planets and whatever organic life we leave
behind continue as they were), you've got more of deist world-view, where
God creates and then steps back.

If you get an answer that all of creation vanishes with Him, because nothing
can exist without the Creator and Sustainer God, then you've got a more
theistic perspective, where God is actively engaged in everything that
happens, "miraculous" or "natural."

I'm interested in what other creationists have to say about God having a
non-existent role in evolution. Meanwhile, here's an interesting quote from
Duane Gish in his second debate with Saladin:

*"if *there is no God, or if God would not intervene, if this universe is
left to itself to take its natural course, it is going to die, because the
day will come, when every star in the universe will have exhausted all of
its fuel, and when that day comes, the lights are going to go out. There'll
be no more activity, there'll be no more life anywhere in the universe. Now
*the universe will still be here* but it'll be a *dead* universe." (italic
emphasis mine)
Gish clearly aligns himself with the more deistic perspective. In other
words, without God, the universe would continue to exist.

-David Buller

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Received on Tue Apr 24 06:03:47 2007