How does evolution produce Total Depravity ....radical corruption?
How does evolution produce Total Depravity ....radical corruption?
Evolution doesn't produce depravity, as this is a non-material concept. The prescription, theologically, for describing total depravity would be the same regardless of the cosmological theory which serves as its backdrop.
Click on the link in the OP.Could we get a working definition of "total depravity" first, please?
Those that propose Thiestic Evolutionism tell us we are here because of descent with modification. How would that theory of human origins create Total Depravity to the human race?
It's really not that hard of a question...I see no need for you to try and confuse it.
As I mentioned before, assuming a framework of total depravity, the mechanism would be the same in either scenario. Since sinfulness isn't strictly biologically heritable (otherwise, Christ would have been sinful...or at least half-sinful), the origin of the human species really isn't that important in the discussion as the trans-physical, trans-biological transmission of sinful nature could be easily applied to any formulation of human origins that you'd like to propose.
That's what the discussion is about. If mankind evolved as the Theo-Evos claim....then how did the sinful nature come about?
If Theo-Evoism is true then it's obvious mankind didn't receive their sin nature in a garden called Eden when two people named Adam and Eve disobeyed their creator. So, how did mankinds sinful nature come about?
How did Adam and Eve receive it? What was the mechanism? Could it be reproduced a laboratory? You speak as if the events recorded in Genesis explain, philosophically and phenomenologically, how the sinful nature arose within human persons. However, it does nothing of the sort. All that the narratives of Genesis say about the sinful nature is that it related to self-willing and disobedience to God; both of which are easily integrated into a evolutionary framework. In fact, if we replace the archetypes of Adam and Eve with "humanity", the conclusions we would reach regarding the problem and nature of human sinfulness is not fundamentally different.
The more complex the organism, the more freedom, the more choices it has; hence, the possibility for evil greatly increases. Chances for good overlap with chances for evil. Piano wire was a great invention, designed to help make the piano more beautiful, but it also can be used to kill people.
Does that mean there is a dolphin heaven and a dolphin hell?Yes, they certainly do. That's why God is said to be God of nature.
Yes. I believe all things, in every aspect of themselves, consist of souls. So, yes, there is a dolphin heaven. Hell? No. I believe God is loving, and when you love others, you don't condemn them to eternal torment.
What you have done is proven my point. In order for Theo-Evoism to work the bible needs to be changed.
The bible must also be changed once again where Paul tells us in Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
We see it again in Romans 5:17 For if, by the trespass of the one man... The one man statement by Paul must be edited to fulfill evolutionary language.