Category: theistic evolution
Paper: “Dangerous tendencies” of Catholic theistic evolutionist included support for “racist eugenic practices”
| August 12, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Abstract: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin loved the world, but, theologically and spiritually, he often tried to leave it behind. This essay shows that from the 1920s until his death in 1955, Teilhard de Chardin unequivocally supported racist eugenic practices, praised the possibilities of the Nazi experiments, and looked down upon those who he deemed “imperfect” […]
Danish ID proponent: Why I have a problem with Theistic evolution.
| July 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
An open letter to William Lane Craig and the proponents of theistic evolution from Karsten Pultz,: author of Exit Evolution, in response to William Lane Craig’s questions around whether Adam and Eve really existed. For 30 years I didn’t believe in a personal God. I was not an outright atheist but was an agnostic leaning […]
A thoughtful cartoonist wonders, who has a problem with evolution?
| July 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theism, theistic evolution |
Closing out our religion coverage for the week, there is an interesting series of cartoons from Jordan Collver at Nautilus, on why people do or don’t “believe in” evolution. Here’s one panel: Some notes: The girl at middle left seems to be a fan of Berra’s Blunder (describing the outcome of alleged unintelligent natural processes […]
Teilhard de Chardin: The “evolution” priest’s legacy included racism and social Darwinism, says theologian
| July 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From John P. Slattery at Religion Dispatches: In fact, a movement has been underway to resurrect, as it were, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as a renewed foundation for theological reflection. According to a November report in America magazine, Pope Francis is already considering removing the “warning” attached to Teilhard’s historical writings, and more recently the […]
Theistic evolution: Conjuring up one’s own version of evolution and calling it God’s
| July 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Karsten Pultz, author of a book on intelligent design in nature (in Danish) Exit Evolution, writes to comment on this recent exchange at ENST between Doug Axe, ID theorist and author of Undeniable, and Hans Vodder, theistic evolutionist, at ENST : In my [Axe’s] previous response to Hans, I tried to show why all attempts to […]
Theistic evolution: There is no clear definition of the term, says reviewer of a critique
| June 24, 2018 | Posted by Denyse OLeary under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Nathan Muse at Apologetics 315, a review of Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, It should be noted that the scientific critiques in this volume are not new. The beauty of this project is distilling them into one volume. Even if some readers will not be completely convinced by the scientific critique […]
William Lane Craig takes on Adam and Eve
| June 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Design inference, Genetics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
It’s risky. The church splitter (fundamentalism) vs. the church closer (theistic evolution). William Lane Craig writes: Two challenges to this doctrine arise from modern science, one fairly old and the other very recent. … I am currently exploring the genetic evidence that is said to rule out an original pair of modern humans. In talking […]
Theistic evolutionist tilts at the God of the Gaps (again)
| June 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Last November, Crossways published a collection of essays, Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique, which is critical of that tendency in theology. Theistic evolutionist Denis O. Lamoureux published a review of the book in American Scientific Affiliation’s Perspectives, “Intelligent Design Theory: The God of the Gaps Rooted in Concordism,” of which this excerpt […]
Evolution News slams “sloppy” IV book by BioLogos advisor
| April 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
From Evolution News: InterVarsity Press publishes some great books and used to be a place to which you could reliably turn for thoughtful, well-researched commentary on evolution and intelligent design. They still have excellent titles on the backlist, including Intelligent Design Uncensored and Darwin on Trial. But in 2016, IVP announced a “partnership with the […]
Asks Wintery Knight: Can a person believe in both God and Darwinian evolution?
| April 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
At his blog: Here is the PR / spin definition of theistic evolution: Evolutionary creation is “the view that all life on earth came about by the God-ordained process of evolution with common descent. Evolution is a means by which God providentially achieves his purposes in creation.” This view, also called theistic evolution, has been […]
Advice: Reserve now for major conference on theistic evolution
| March 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Hey, springtime in Philadelphia. Can you get your institution to pay? 😉 From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News and Science Today: Update: The deadline to register for this event is Monday, April 2. We strongly advise registering now to reserve your place. As philosophy, theology, and sociology, theistic evolution is a fascinating and extremely influential phenomenon. […]
Mormons “need not shy away from evolution” – provided they don’t read the fine print
| March 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, theistic evolution |
From Peggy Fletcher Stack at Salt Lake City Tribune: Mormons should be as friendly to evolution as any people on Earth, a Brigham Young University biologist unequivocally declared this week. They believe in “eternal progression,” for example, and that the universe was organized from pre-existing matter, Steven L. Peck told a packed audience Thursday on […]
Theistic evolutionist: Neanderthals “not members of our own species,” despite evidence of Neanderthal ancestry
| February 24, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, speciation, theistic evolution |
Theology can lead us to some weird places. From Evolution News and Science Today, in a continuing series on Adam and the Genome, As if on cue, science news today reports a remarkable discovery: cave art in Spain from upwards of 64,000 years ago, apparently by Neanderthals. The Wall Street Journal aptly summarizes the takeaway: […]
Tyler O’Neil: Three views on origins supported by the text of the Bible
| February 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Tyler O’Neil at PJ Media, in support of Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design , including evolutionary creation: Deborah Haarsma, president of BioLogos, argued that the scientific theory of evolution is compatible with biblical creation. She made a clear distinction between Darwinistic evolutionism — which uses evolution to disprove God — and […]
Adam and Eve: Some of those just-a-myth citations turned out to be fig leaves
| February 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution |
They withered under study. There’s been a lively discussion between geneticists Dennis Venema and Richard Buggs and about whether the human race must have had more than one pair of ancestors (Venema yes, Buggs no). From Evolution News and Science Today: Earlier, we saw that evolutionary genomicist Richard Buggs has been engaged in a dialogue with […]
Actually, it isn’t ID that’s breaking up; it’s Darwinism
| January 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
From Tyler O’Neil at PJ Media, on a new book, Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (J. B.Stump, ed), Opponents of intelligent design (ID) usually dismiss the theory as unscientific, an attempt at smuggling religion into science through a back door. They slam it as a “god of the gaps” argument — inserting […]
Theistic evolution, Adam and Eve: Adam and Eve are still just barely visible behind that bush, like always
| January 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, theistic evolution |
At Evolution News & Science Today, various reflections are offered on Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight’s Adam and the Genome: Genomic science indicates that humans descend not from an individual pair but from a large population. What does this mean for the basic claim of many Christians: that humans descend from Adam and Eve? Leading […]
New Theistic Evolution book doing quite well at Amazon
| November 30, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Approx noon EST, Theistic Evolution: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Theology > Creationism #13 in Books > Christian Books & Bibles > Theology > Apologetics #46 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Theology From the editorial reviews: — “This volume fills a wide and expanding gap for Christians who continue to struggle with the relationship of evangelical Christianity to the […]
Wayne Rossiter: Revolving the evolving God at BioLogos
| November 19, 2017 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Wayne Rossiter, author of Shadow of Oz: Theistic Evolution and the Absent God, draws our attention to this BioLogos post by British evangelical writer and editor Robin Parry: God is More Than an Intelligent Designer The problem with Intelligent Design (ID) is its tendency to look for God (or simply a “designer”) in the gaps […]
Here’s a trailer for the new book critiquing “theistic evolution”
| November 15, 2017 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Intelligent Design, theistic evolution |
Here’s the trailer for the new book, Theistic Evolution, with a foreword by sociologist Steve Fuller, who studies ID professionally. The Problem with Theistic Evolution from Crossway on Vimeo. Here’s the outline of chapters. Amazon is currently offering a 28% discount (November 30). Note: News posting will be light till this evening due to other […]
