A statement about theistic evolution

[Vance]

I posted this as the last paragraph in a thread on the science forum, but since it is a statement about theistic evolution and one of the reasons I believe in it, I thought it more appropriate here:

I think about the overwhelming power of the everchanging life-cycles, the ability for creatures to adapt in great and dramatic ways to better fit into their environment, and I am in awe. I feel the power of God much more dramatically in the idea of macro-evolution than I ever could in immediate special creation, followed by minor changes. My God is definitely not so limited that He can only allow small "inter-kind" changes. I believe He can, and did, develop a process SO POWERFUL that it can take a mouse and eventually evolve it into a mammoth. THAT is power. THAT is awesome. THAT is Theistic Evolution.

 

[adam149]

I posted this as the last paragraph in a thread on the science forum, but since it is a statement about theistic evolution and one of the reasons I believe in it, I thought it more appropriate here:

I think about the overwhelming power of the everchanging life-cycles, the ability for creatures to adapt in great and dramatic ways to better fit into their environment, and I am in awe. I feel the power of God much more dramatically in the idea of macro-evolution than I ever could in immediate special creation, followed by minor changes. My God is definitely not so limited that He can only allow small "inter-kind" changes. I believe He can, and did, develop a process SO POWERFUL that it can take a mouse and eventually evolve it into a mammoth. THAT is power. THAT is awesome. THAT is Theistic Evolution.

Of course, God is perfectly capable to do that. The question is: did he? You might not limit God, but I limit myself to having God tell me how he did do it.

 

[Vance]

Of course, God is perfectly capable to do that. The question is: did he? You might not limit God, but I limit myself to having God tell me how he did do it.

Right, but the question still remains whether Genesis 1 and 2 was an attempt at all to tell us HOW and WHEN He did it or rather just telling us the WHO and WHY. And when looking for God telling us how He did it, we also need to realize that God speaks through His very Creation itself. When the evidence of God's Creation and God's Word in the Scripture seem to conflict, then either our human interpretation of God's Word or our human interpretation of God's Creation is at fault.

When the issue was whether the Sun revolved around the Earth or vice-versa, it turned out that our NEW understanding of God's Creation, as discovered through naturalistic methodology, was correct and our understanding of God's Word was in error.

Given the evidence, I just think it is very, very likely that the same is true regarding evolution and an old earth.