RE: [asa] Saving Darwin: What theological changes are required?

Though a layman, this literalist also disagree with the three provocative
points:

"1. We must abandon thinking of Adam and Eve as real people or even
surrogates for groups of real people."

Nonsense. Allowing evolved homo sapiens with the subsequent special
creation of Adam and Eve is a much smaller step than required by his
mandate.

"2. The Fall must disappear from history as an event and become, instead, a
partial insight into the morally ambiguous character with which evolution
endowed our species."

Allowing evolved pre-Adamites gives evolution all the room it needs to fit
the theory. Sin applies to those with living souls, namely Adam and Eve,
who were, not surprisingly, placed high in the mountains in a special
garden, separated from the pre-Adamites.

"3. We must consider extending the imago dei, in some sense, beyond our
species."

I can accept an exoplanetary imago dei view, but non-humans here don't fit
the requirement.

"Coope"

-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Rich Blinne
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:41 AM
To: David Opderbeck
Cc: Steve Martin; ASA list
Subject: Re: [asa] Saving Darwin: What theological changes are required?

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:52 AM, David Opderbeck wrote:

> Well, I ordered Karl's book, but I'm kinda regretting it now. These
> "musts" are just hubris, and disastrous hubris, IMHO.
>
> Isn't this just "warfare" thinking from the "other side?" Why
> "must" theology concede these critical points to "science?"
>
> This sort of thing is why I cannot identify myself as a TE.

I tend to agree. This is the kind of thing that will shut down all
dialogue with my evangelical friends. From what I can tell this whole
"must" approach is not representative of TE/EC. Is there anyone out
there that holds to Giberson's thesis? So far, all I have heard is
critique of it from the TEs. That being said Giberson is correct that
a great deal of theological work needs to be done to deal with the
challenges that accepting evolution causes -- but with a much larger
heaping of humility.

Rich Blinne
Member ASA

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Mon Jun 9 11:49:47 2008