I post many essays on my blog, but none of them attract the
attention as those against macro-evolution. Nor are there any as often or as
ferociously contested as these.
Why? This battle continues to rage as the front line between the two major worldviews – atheism and theism. According to many voices, it is where one of these worldviews will ultimately be put to rest. In Atheist American, atheist Richard Bozarth had written:
Why? This battle continues to rage as the front line between the two major worldviews – atheism and theism. According to many voices, it is where one of these worldviews will ultimately be put to rest. In Atheist American, atheist Richard Bozarth had written:
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Christianity has fought, and will fight…to the
desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally
the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam
and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains
of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the
redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then
Christianity is nothing. (Feb. 1978, p.30)
Meanwhile, theistic evolutionists offer us a relatively painless
death, like a frog in slowly heating water, claiming that we can have our
politically correct cake and pleasurably eat it. In
“Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and
Believe in Evolution,” theistic evolutionist and former co-head of the
Biologos Foundation, Karl Giberson, admitted that:
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Acid is an appropriate metaphor for the erosion of
my fundamentalism, as I slowly lost confidence in the Genesis story of creation
and the scientific creationism that placed this ancient story within the
framework of modern science….[Darwin’s] acid dissolved Adam and Eve; it ate
through the Garden of Eden; it destroyed the historicity of the events of
creation week. It etched holes in those parts of Christianity connected to the
stories—the fall, “Christ as the second Adam,” the origins of sin, and nearly
everything else that I counted sacred. (9-10)
While, after this, he reassured his readers that evolution’s
acid would not dissolve any more of his faith, Giberson subsequently admitted
that he could no longer believe in the God of the Old Testament, Jesus’ God.
Perhaps, by now, death has already claimed him for atheism.
Sadly, many are like Giberson. They reassure me that they are just as Christian as anyone else, having just as high a view of Scripture as Jesus Himself. However, their faith is also in its death throes. One symptom of this is - when I bring the argument down to specific Scriptural verses, they “piously” retort that “We have to be humble about our interpretations of Scripture.” If only they had been equally humble about Darwinism!
Sadly, many are like Giberson. They reassure me that they are just as Christian as anyone else, having just as high a view of Scripture as Jesus Himself. However, their faith is also in its death throes. One symptom of this is - when I bring the argument down to specific Scriptural verses, they “piously” retort that “We have to be humble about our interpretations of Scripture.” If only they had been equally humble about Darwinism!
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