Re: [asa] Almost Half of Evangelical Theologians Accept Evolution?

Hi John,

Thanks for posting this article of mine .. but, um, Michael Dowd and I are
not the same person ... I am an ASA member and wholeheartedly agree with
all four of our "statements of faith" as outlined
here<http://www.asa3.org/ASA/faithASA.html>.
From what I've read of Dowd, I highly doubt he'd agree with #1 or #2.

re: the article itself, has anyone else read Waltke's report on the Biologos
site? Is anyone else surprised at the high number of respondents who
support an evolving creation?

thanks,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM, John Walley <john_walley@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Almost Half of Evangelical Theologians Accept Evolution?<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/AnEvangelicalDialogueOnEvolution/%7E3/hT7uS8OHwY8/almost-half-of-evangelical-theologians.html>
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> Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:35 PM PDT
> About a year and half ago I commented that evangelical theologians seem
> hesitant to engage in the science / faith dialogue<http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com/2008/03/polkinghorne-quotes-9-timid-theologians.html>.
> Chiding them as “timid”, I asked:
>
> If we [evangelicals] cannot speak to the issues of the day, how can we
> expect others to be interested in the gospel? If we aren’t answering the
> questions that are being asked, why are we surprised when people (including
> our youth) look elsewhere for answers?
>
> Evangelical theologians: This is not so much a complaint as a request for
> help.
>
> A few months later, I indicated that I might have been too harsh, and that
> evangelical theologians were indeed re-evaluating their reluctance to
> consider the implications of an evolving creation. In a post on the
> relationship between the leading evangelical scientific organization (the
> ASA) and the leading evangelical theological organization (the ETS)<http://evanevodialogue.blogspot.com/2008/07/re-evaluation-by-evangelical.html>,
> I shared how Bruce Waltke<http://www.rts.edu/faculty/StaffDetails.aspx?id=29>,
> a former president of the ETS, had come to accept evolution. I ended this
> essay by chiding myself and some of my fellow ECs with the remark that:
>
> Maybe we just need to be patient and let [evangelical theologians] think
> this [science / faith topic] through for awhile.
>
> By “awhile”, I was thinking years, if not decades.
>
> Well, maybe evangelical theologians are much, much further along in this
> process than many of us had ever imagined. In a survey that Waltke
> conducted for Biologos<http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/Waltke_scholarly_essay.pdf>,
> he found that almost half (46%) of evangelical theologians that responded to
> his survey accept that God created through the process of evolution. (HT: David
> Opderbeck <http://www.tgdarkly.com/blog/?p=979>)
>
> You read that right: 46% of evangelical theologians that participated in
> Waltke’s survey, accept that God created through the process of evolution.
>
> I think there are some legitimate questions that can be asked about the
> methodological rigour of this survey. But even if the 46% number is somewhat
> inflated (and I suspect this is probably the case), evangelical theologians
> are not even close to being predominantly opposed to evolution.
>
> Now if only some of this theological thinking would translate into more
> theological discussion and theological action ….
>
> Patience, Steve, patience.
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