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thats another reason (among the many!) that i think theistic evolution is such a blunder - its trying too hard to understand the acts of God by merely human endeavors. it removes mystery and the humility of admitting that we just dont (and wont) know it all.
I would say that I fall into the theistic evolution camp. I studied enough biology and science in general during my high school and college years (granted I was only a biology major for one year) to see a lot of evidence in God's creation that is hard to explain away. Personally I think that creationism is just as much a blunder as theistic evolution can be. They both have a tendency to try too hard to make sense of every little thing. But I don't foresee science giving up on studying the world around us. I think both are attempts to take this endeavor and align it with Christian faith. One might err on the side of the faith and one on the side of science, but both tend to make compromises.
I suppose I prefer my approach. And to be fair, I don't mind your approach of telling people what the Fathers have written. I have taken issue with attacks on uniformitarianism, but only because I think it requires speculation in the absence of evidence from either the Fathers or from science. We can't know whether any particular thing has changed or remained the same. It is speculation to assume either way. I enjoy watching scientists learn new things, revise and repudiate older concepts, and discover a tiny portion of the universe that God created. I don't put stock in any of it being absolute truth, but it's interesting. How any of it ties in with what has been revealed in our Faith, I shall have to wait and see. I remain interested but agnostic on the subject.
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