Featured Scholar Explains Why So Many Reject Genesis

I am a YEC, however the best thinker (and perhaps the "father") of Theistic Evolution is Enri Bergson and his concept of the elan vital.

The elan vital - A life force introduced into or perhaps even native to the material universe which would ultimately result in the universe becoming aware of itself (Presumably humankind).

HankD

 

That is about as good as the following:

Creation By and From the Self

In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and what existed was covered by death and hunger. He thought, "Let me have a self", and he created the mind. As he moved about in worship, water was generated. Froth formed on the water, and the froth eventually solidifed to become earth. He rested on the earth, and from his luminence came fire. After resting, he divided himself in three parts, and one is fire, one is the sun, and one is the air.

Thus in the beginning the world was only his self, his being or essence, which then took the shape of a person. At first he was afraid, but realizing that he was alone and had nothing of which to be afraid, his fear ceased. However, he had no happiness because he was alone, and he longed for another. He grew as large as two persons embracing, and he caused his self to split into two matching parts, like two halves of a split pea, and from them arose husband and wife.

They mated, and from their union arose the human beings of the earth. The female reflected on having mated with someone of whom she was once a part, and she resolved that she should hide so that it would not happen again. She changed to a cow to disguise herself, but he changed to a bull and mated with her, and from their union cows arose. She changed to the form of a mare, but he changed to that of a stallion and mated with her, and from that union came horses. She changed to the form of a donkey, but he did likewise, and from them arose the single-hoofed animals. She became a ewe, but he became a ram, and from their union came the sheep and goats. It continued thus, with her changing form to elude him but he finding her and mating with her, until they had created all the animals that live in pairs, from humans and horses to ants.

After all this work, he reflected that he was indeed Creation personified, for he had created all this. Rubbing back and forth, he made Fire, the god of fire, from his hands, and from his semen he made Soma, the god of the moon. This was his highest creation because, although mortal himself, he had created immortal gods.​

From: http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/CS/CSSelf.html

 

I suppose.

HankD

 

I'm old earth creationist myself.

But no, evolution does not say men came from apes.

What it says is that apes and men had a common ancestor.

I disagree with them, but for heaven's sake, intellectual honesty means you have to refute what they say, not what someone else says they say.

 

Here, here!!!

Amen!!!

 

Yep.. basically - rocks.

And intellectual honesty understands that man 'had' to come from the apes line in order to have a common ancestor because evolution declares we come from their branch on the evolutionary chain, and not as a split off from it the common ancestor.

 

Amen. None of which matches up with "Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." (Genesis 2:7)

 

this number.....I completely agree with you, but how does this completely dismantle the possibility that God used and engineered evolution to accomplish just this. I don't think it does. (Respectfully)

 

many have rejected the truth of verbal inerrancy/infallibility, and many also have assumed Evolutionary "truths" are real!

 

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