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no. It'd be like trying trying to quench your thirst by drinking sand.

 

The term "Darwinism" is misapplied as is the term "Calvinist". Darwin, himself, was not anti-church, just as Calvin, himself, would not fit the modern Calvinist viewpoint.

We must be very careful with labels.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Darwin was every bit against the church and God.


http://creation.com/darwins-arguments-against-god

 

To insure a meaningful answer you must define your terms!

1. What is Bilbical Christianity?

2. What is Darwinism? The term is antiquated and means different things to different people.

A simple answer is yes!, some people think it is compatable.

And yes, if it's true then a Christian should hold to it - - but it's certainly not essential for salivation :thumbs: {spelling intentional}.

Rob

 

It matters not what some people think. It is incompatible with Christianity. In fact at its origin it was intended to disprove much of the Bible. And unfortunately some well meaning Christians have lost sight of its history and bought into syncretism.

 

Darwinism is false. That truth is recognized more as time passes even by those who are strict evolutionists.

Though Darwin was initially not opposed to Christianity he became so in later life!

http://www.darwin-literature.com/l_biography.html

 

Good point.

 

Two Answers..

NO !!! & Absolutely NOT!!! If you accept Darwin and his molecules to man/millions of years THEORY and cast doubt on the historical authority of the Genesis account of Creation then you cast doubt on the authority of the entire Word of God. Creation happened as God recorded it. IT is a matter of faith though...and that is a gift from God.

Bro.Greg

 

At one time I held a "Thestic evolution" viewpoint. Didn't know it had a name. It was an effort reconcile my belief in Genesis 1:1 and all that I'd been taught from grade school forward. Logical sounding theories presented as fact. Presented as fact with no rebuttal, no alternative possibilities to the "how" of what we see on earth.

FACT. Millions of years were needed to form the Grand Canyon.
FACT. Fossil evidence confirms that birds evolved from dinasours.
FACT. Embryo development stages prove the evolutionary path to mankind.
FACT. etc & etc

That is, until I was challenged by my pastor. Challenged to search for the TRUTH. The day I walked out of his study, I *knew* I could prove my viewpoint. After many days of study, armed with binders filled with pages marked with yellow highlight, the Holy Spirit, and "alternative possibilities" from the Internet proved I was wrong! Absolutely, positivity, without a doubt I was WRONG. There is no middle ground, no fence sitting, one foot in the Bible and the other in the secular world of so-called "theory".

There is an alternative explaination for the formation of the Grand Canyon.
Fossil "evidence" does not prove the birds and dinasours relationship.
The classic embryo development presentation is a fraud.

As a layman with a lifelong avid interest in geology, archeology, paleontology, etc. is wasn't easy to give up my theistic evolution position. Point by painstaking point, arguements against Genesis being a true historical record fell.

For the first time, I learned of questions that evolutionists avoid because "evolution" doesn't answer them. Genesis does. For example, coal and oil deposits cannot come about through a slow build up of plant and animal matter. Rapid accumulation and compression are needed. That's found in Genesis. Evolution doesn't provide the required mechanics for accumulation and compression within the timeframe needed. The great flood does.

For anyone who takes the theistic evolution position, I challenge you, just as my pastor challenged me. Take the time. Make the effort. Learn what you haven't been taught in schools and in History Channel documentaries. Look for those questions for which there are no answers in evolution. Look for the answers that can be found in Genesis.

And above, all pray for guidance that the Holy Spirit will help you strip away the layers of indroctionation to reveal the TRUTH. I know I couldn't have done it alone.

 

Eyes Wide Open!!!

Brother...I could not even possibly say it any better than THAT!! So I'll just say...AMEN! AMEN! & AMEN!!!

Bro.Greg:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

As long as there are humans around, there will always be alternatives to any position.

 

Darwin held two theories. The first was that "unfit" species that could not adapt to their environment would die off. The second was that mutations would add favorable genetic information such that new species would arise to take their turn at adaptation. He felt that these two theories worked together to explain the natural world he observed.

It is true that we lose genetic information (species become extinct). Also there is selection, for example, as humans live with cockroaches, the slower ones are killed off such that it appears that cockroaches get faster when it is just that the genetic information for slow cockroaches is not passed on to subsequent generations.

The theory that new genetic information is introduced through mutation has not proven valid. There are millions of mutations every day. Most produce cancers as it only takes one thing to go wrong. To obtain a favorable mutation, one would need thousands or millions of things to go "right" all at the same time.

Most universities could be called temples to the religion of secularism (the worship of man in general and self in particular). These institutions hold religious like doctrines and they have taken to Darwin as a patron saint.

There are countless declarations from people who call themselves scientists who declare the Biblical record to be inaccurate. However, when you investigate their claims, it is usually based on their claims of expertise (we should trust them), data that has been processed to produce results that substantiate their claims (fudge factors), or the old "everyone says that it is true".

In summary, evolution states that nothing existed and then it blew up. Then it clumped together and became planets. Then minerals started to become people. There are several problems with this;

1. To make a single cell (something that can reproduce) requires an alignment of atoms that is statistically unimaginable.

2. In the last 150 years no one has ever observed a single favorable mutation. There are mutations every day. Cancer is a commonly observed mutation. An unfavorable mutation only requires a single failure. A favorable mutation may require as many as 100,000 simultaneous mutations. (also statistically unimaginable).

3. There are no transition life forms in the fossil record.

4. The dust on the moon is only 1/2" deep.

If you consider that before the flood people lived longer, it may not be unreasonable to surmise that reptiles also lived longer. The longer reptiles live (unlike mammals), the larger they get. It might be reasonable to expect that some reptiles got very large. Man was not allowed to eat meat until after the flood. One might assume that the mammoth was a little slower than the elephant.

Science has value as long as it searches for truth. When it becomes an enforcement arm of political and social engineers, it has no value. Consider those who did not agree with the "science" of phrenology (reading the bumps on your head) in the 1930s in Germany.

To those who would declare the Bible as unreliable, I would urge caution. The Bible says "woe" to those that call good bad and bad good.

To those who feel bullied by so-called declarers of "science", I say hold firm.

Jesus said of those who were undermining faith that a millstone would be a better fate.

There is no point in disputation or being drawn into a "tar baby" arguments. However, we need periodically to hear someone stand for the truth of God's word.

 

Here is a better question. Is Darwinism science?

 

Welcome Tim and Amen.

Some of the points you mentioned and others are part of what helped me reverse the theistic evolution viewpoint that I once held.

IMO, we need much more than "periodically" to stand for the truth of God's word. We need more to speak out on the difference between true science and so-called science. The loaf of "science" has been so levened that it has expanded to encompass speculations, unproven theories, and such that true science is hard to identify. (True science, understanding some of the mysteries of how God's creation functions.)

 

Is Darwinism compatible with Biblical Christianity

No, Dawinism has been discredited completely by science. Now folks advocating godless creation use the term "neo-Darwinism" to describe modern views, avoiding errors like Piltdown Man, and Recapitulation.

YEC will claim every view that says creation did not occur less than 10,000 years ago is completely incompatible with Biblical Christianity, assuming their view is representative of such.

OEC will allow for an older creation, like the Big Bang, and not assume God could not evolve some of creation over time.

The actual biblical view from Job 38 is we were not there and we do not know how God created everything, only that He did.

Speculation is the mother of false doctrine.