[atlaw]

Under the banner of "theistic evolution," a growing number of Christians maintain that God used evolution as His method for creation. This, in my estimation, is the worst of all possibilities.

It is one thing to believe in evolution, it is quite another to blame God for it. Not only is theistic evolution a contradiction in terms -- like the phrase flaming snowflakes -- but as we have seen, it is also the cruelest, most inefficient system for creation imaginable...

Does God have to make millions of mistakes along the way to have fellowship with you and me?

Well, that's certainly an odd take on the issue. You seem to be endorsing a view that God could not possibly have been responsible for an evolutionary process that resulted in the cruelty and inefficiency we actually observe in nature. Instead, God must have purposefully manipulated all of the minutia of organic matter into ... um ... the cruelty and inefficiency we actually observe in nature.

[Ichneumon]

Well, that's certainly an odd take on the issue. You seem to be endorsing a view that God could not possibly have been responsible for an evolutionary process that resulted in the cruelty and inefficiency we actually observe in nature. Instead, God must have purposefully manipulated all of the minutia of organic matter into ... um ... the cruelty and inefficiency we actually observe in nature.

*applause*.

[JohnnyM]

"You seem to be endorsing a view that God could not possibly have been responsible for an evolutionary process that resulted in the cruelty and inefficiency we actually observe in nature"

He didnt say that. He was talking about fellowship with man, not the current state of nature. If God desired fellowship with man, then why go through the evolutionary process to produce man, when he could have easily created him instantly.

Evolution is incompatible with the Bible. It makes a mockery of Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross and mangles the Word of God. It totally ignores the fall of man and the nature of his soul. Evolution says that man evolved into who he is from some basic lifeform, yet the Bible states that man was created as man. Now through this one man, sin entered into the world. In evolution did this "man" evolve to a sinless nature then lose it. In evolution, was sin not around until this "man" suddenly evolved. What about his parent species? Are they free from this sin nature and unnaffected by Adam's fall.

The Bible clearly points to Adam as the man who brought in sin, and through him sin came into the world. Evolution spits in the face of this.

If you want to take evolution over the Bible, fine. But to say their compatible is to say 2 = 1.

JM