Sunday, April 18, 2010
Blame Game
Hmmm ...We all "know" that moderate theists "enable" religious extremists.
But they also seem to enable atheists:
First, there are three positions in the creation-evolution debate.
The Christian biblical view is that God created everything in its present form in six days.
The second is the atheists' view that there is no God and everything just happened by chance, including the Big Bang, spontaneous generation of life, and evolution of all species.
The third is the theistic evolution belief, to which Mr. Connelly ascribes, that says there is a God and he caused the Big Bang, spon-taneous generation of life, and evolution of all species.
True Christians never deny scientific facts, except in the Bible, where God caused miracles. To apply scientific facts to the miracles in the Bible, you'd either have to accept God and deny science or, as atheists do, deny the miracle.
Theistic evolutionists believe that science has proven a Big Bang and millions of years of evolution. None of this has been proven, and those theories require several assumptions.
They claim to be Christians, as many are, and accept the other miracles in the Bible, but deny the miracle of creation. Why?
There is an enormous amount of evidence supporting creation, a worldwide flood, and a young Earth. Marine fossils that are found near the tops of mountains are a fact.
There are no intermediate species today between humans and any other species. The shrinking sun would have been too big and close millions of years ago.
What is wrong with Christians believing in theistic evolution? They destroy any possibility that the Bible is God's word when the first few lines are claimed to be false.
Christianity has been almost destroyed in Europe. The U.S. has degenerated into a post-Christian nation.
Much of this is because of apathy and the actions of theistic evolutionists who aid atheists in supporting evolution.
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In my case, my moderate theism consists of accepting science, as far as it goes. My acceptance includes positively revelling in the wonders of evolutionary biology and paleontology.
: 10:55 PM So yes, it may be true as a sociological fact, but in itself it is an illegitimate criticism of moderate religion, unless you're also prepared to criticize those other areas consistently, too.
Note though, that there are versions of the extremist-enabling meme which are not vacuous, eg. if the moderates fail to reasonably dissociate themselves from the crazies, then they are in effect providing a kind of cover for them.
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