You Can Believe in Evolution...Just Don't Blame God!
I just got around to reading the CT Blog...
Bruce Waltke headed to Knox Theological Seminary? (updated) Liveblog Christianity Today
Sadly, I am amazed that in the age of scientific enlightenment, an educated Old Testament scholar to the caliber of Dr. Bruce Waltke would consider the possibility of theistic evolution!
There is actually no evidence for macro evolution, as in the case of one species of animal evolving into another higher species of animal - like apes to humans. Yes, some might point to something like finch beaks, but this is an example of micro evolution, but examples of major leaps in macro evolution just have not been found.
One can also contend that the very scientific paradigm of Darwinian evolution is just another one of those old nineteeth century ideas that needs to go into the valut of "science of days gone by...yeah good times." For example, the Cambrian fossil record demonstrates the sudden appearance of diverse complex life forms without evidence of a gradual transitional steps as predicted in the Darwinian model (cf. http://www.darwinsdilemma.org/). This is not to mention the very DNA that forms the building blocks for all life is so complex, the odds are astronomically against the formation of a single celled creature simply by random chance.
What kind of God would design his universe in such a way wherein the very humans, the objects of his love, would have to come about through a divinely ordained evolutionary path that coldly follows the rule of "survival of the fittest" and accepts the utter extinction of lower species, which is all driven by the emerging new species?
To this end, I say, "you can believe in evolution, just don't blame God for it."
Bruce Waltke headed to Knox Theological Seminary? (updated) Liveblog Christianity Today
Sadly, I am amazed that in the age of scientific enlightenment, an educated Old Testament scholar to the caliber of Dr. Bruce Waltke would consider the possibility of theistic evolution!
There is actually no evidence for macro evolution, as in the case of one species of animal evolving into another higher species of animal - like apes to humans. Yes, some might point to something like finch beaks, but this is an example of micro evolution, but examples of major leaps in macro evolution just have not been found.
One can also contend that the very scientific paradigm of Darwinian evolution is just another one of those old nineteeth century ideas that needs to go into the valut of "science of days gone by...yeah good times." For example, the Cambrian fossil record demonstrates the sudden appearance of diverse complex life forms without evidence of a gradual transitional steps as predicted in the Darwinian model (cf. http://www.darwinsdilemma.org/). This is not to mention the very DNA that forms the building blocks for all life is so complex, the odds are astronomically against the formation of a single celled creature simply by random chance.
What kind of God would design his universe in such a way wherein the very humans, the objects of his love, would have to come about through a divinely ordained evolutionary path that coldly follows the rule of "survival of the fittest" and accepts the utter extinction of lower species, which is all driven by the emerging new species?
To this end, I say, "you can believe in evolution, just don't blame God for it."
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