Re: [asa] Biologic Institute

But let's be fair David C. -- public advocates of evolutionary biology
who
are not Christians tend to disparage any notion of teleology at all,
including your category (c). I'm also not so sure why your categories
(a)
and (c) are entirely separate. One view of the "days" of Gen. 1 is that
they represent a literary depiction of the divine assignment of
function to
the material universe (John Walton develops this view in his work).
It is
not only a polemic against rival gods; it also reflects God's careful
ordering of the functions of the material creation (the sun and moon
give
light and mark the seasons; the plants, fish and animals fill the empty
ground and provide food; human beings rule over the earth). While
science
can't specifically demonstrate this empirically, some scientific
observations can be seen as consistent with it -- such as the anthropic
coincidences and maybe convergent evolution.

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Received on Tue May 13 16:19:21 2008