Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was instrumental in organizing Christian theology along Aristotelian lines. Here, a priest who is familiar with his thought, offers some comments.
Tag: Adam and Eve
Casey Luskin and Hank Hanegraff on Adam and Eve
From the podcast intro: Hank and Dr. Luskin discuss why so many Christians are so quick to abandon the belief of a historical Adam and Eve, theistic evolution, evolutionary creationism, the argument that human genetic diversity can’t be explained by an original Adam and Eve and more.
At Fox News: Adam and Eve are compatible with evolution
When we consider the huge difference between human beings and any other life form on the planet, it is more reasonable to assume that we had one pair of ancestors than that we had many.
Kenneth Kemp’s review of William Lane Craig’s book on Adam and Eve
Kemp: An evolved body might be both functional as a mere animal body and capable of receiving the rational soul that would make it human.
Christian Darwinists must now backtrack re Adam and Eve
Casey Luskin: “When I was reading the rhetoric used by evangelical elites who advocated abandoning a historical Adam and Eve, I was struck by how much of it seemed driven by fear — fear of looking foolish before the world because you challenged evolution and were shown to be wrong.” Maybe being right, sticking with their tradition, would have been a bigger problem for them.
Why did the evangelical Christian world go nuts for Christian Darwinism a decade ago?
Contra Trendy Christians: It makes sense that all humans would descend from a single couple. If you had to account for something like, say, human consciousness, isn’t it easier to address that if we all belong to the same family of origin? Would you prefer to explain the development of human consciousness assuming that we come from multiple different ones? Darn good thing if someone can prove its true genetically.
Adam and Eve and Swamidass and science — a review
The really remarkable thing is that after all this time and all that rhetoric, Adam and Eve remain a defensible idea.
We could have come from two parents
Says a new paper at BIO-Complexity by Ola Hossjer and Ann Gauger.
Nathan Lents plugs Joshua Swamidass’s book on Adam and Eve at USA Today
Actually, it would make way more sense to take Adam and Eve seriously than to take the multiverse seriously, as many atheists do. Everyone is familiar with the type of human behavior Adam and Eve are said to have engaged in. No one knows what a universe that literally makes no sense would be like.
First human couple still in the news
And the advent of genome mapping has kept them in the science news too. Think “mitochondrial Eve” and quarter million-year-old Adam. It’ll get more interesting still with new finds, we can be sure.
Danish ID proponent: Why I have a problem with 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 Read More…