Re: [asa] Theistic Evolutionists Clos e Ranks * (loonies)

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, David Campbell <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anyone who accepts evolution on the basis of the
> scientific data, concluding that as best as we can tell, it describes
> how God usually creates different kinds of organisms, is not accepting
> evolution out of a desire to look good to atheists, and indeed is
> directly contesting the philosophical and religious claims of
> "scientific" atheism, whereas antievolutionism regularly accepts those
> claims.

In fact both creationists and atheistic evolutionists have told me that I
"don't really accept evolution" because I insist that evolution operates
under the sovereignty of God. Both seem to insist that THE definition of
evolution requires random variation. And this brings us to another
definitional issue. A simple definition of a random process is a process
whose evolution is unpredictable. Since I am not God and am not
omniscient, many of God's actions are unpredictable. Therefore my mental
model of God includes randomness. So I don't have a problem with the claim
that randomness drives evolution. But my reasoning doesn't make any points
with either creationists or atheistic evolutionists.

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William E (Bill) Hamilton Jr.
Rochester, MI/Austin, TX
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