Featured How Do Thestic Evolutionist Chrsitians Account for man and species transformation?

Yeshua, I think you (perhaps many others) confuse "anything evolution" with Darwin's mechanism of natural selection (naturalism). Most "hard core" scientists are probably "naturalists", though even many believing Christians would classify themselves "naturalists" in a somewhat narrow sense.

Hard core "natrualists" usually operate under the assumption that not creative act of a deity is necessary, i.e. that life evolved on entirely natural principles having only the proper ingredients. I "think" most theistic oriented scientists, particularly christian, do not fall in that category.

I think, you would do well to understand some of the terminology associated with evolutionary biology. If you think evolution does not occur in biological organisms.....well you are simply wrong. There is absolutely no denying that it does. Rob, informed you of its reality in the science of vaccinations.

You might learn a bit from Michael Behe's work on The Edge of Evolution. He makes a great and well researched case for parameters existing for evolution. Try to stop thinking of "evolution" as a four letter (christian) word. Understand it, then argue against it.

 

If you mean "theistic evolutionists

1. Most, if not all do
2. Some, perhaps many do (Some in fact do have discussion about who Adam is)
3. I would think that most (perhaps all) do hold to an Old Universe and Earth
4. Not sure how many read Genesis as "near eastern myth or legend"

 

Talking to theistic evolutionists often is difficult to do. Like Calvinists they always insist, because you are not one of them, that you are ignorant and do not know what you are talking about. That way it shuts down discussion and they do not have to deal with you.

 

This is why a dog and a cat can not be crossed from the very beginning.
Never could, can't now, never will.

Genesis 1

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.​

HankD​

 

Why can God not speak AND use evolution as the means to make it what it was?

 

Where does the Bible say something that excludes evolution from one of the possible means whereby God made creatures?

 

Why could not evolution be the means whereby he made them after their own kind?

 

Luke,

Are you instigating an intellectual (theological) exercise or are you truly "unoffended" by the possibility of evolution being a mechanism of God's creation?

 

I am interested in seeing good arguments not just weak YEC talking points.

If anybody will ever make an argument rather than a claim without support I am going to make a CASE for OE so that proper and needful scrutiny can be applied.

 

I "like" and respect good arguments....even when I stand in opposition to them.

 

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence

 

JFTR, I don't think that simply believing precisely what God said qualifies as a "weak YEC talking point"!

I would call it FAITH!

 

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-and-neanderthals

 

Usually what that means is "I have bad hermeneutics."

Taking things literally that are NOT literal is NOT believing precisely what God says AT ALL.

It is the opposite.