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The underlined part is wrong. "Mainstream" protestantism has changed considerably from what this author thinks it is.

Hi, xzins! I readily accept that your characterization is true. But your reply doesn't tell me anything about what the mainstream protestant view of evolution is, assuming there is such a consensus view. Can you give me a quick "heads-up" on that?

I don't want to make any rash assumptions about protestant belief here, though I would really like to discuss evolution theory, especially with regard to whether evolution theory is "complete." I think it is not complete, for two reasons: (1) it gives no plausible account of the origin of life; and (2) it gives no explanation of man whatever. Still, it might have been a tool in God's toolkit for the development of the physical side of (lower-order?) creature -- if I might put it that way.

Please let me make it clear: I hold no brief whatever for macroevolution. I think it is a "myth" in the strict sense of that word. Microevolution, on the other hand, might have something going for it.

I suspect Pope Benedict rejects both the materialism and the insistence on randomness of the Darwinist account. As do I. But I didn't have to hear this from him first. It just seems evident to me that a reasonable person of faith would see on the evidence that these requirements of Darwinist orthodoxy do not comport with and cannot explain what we actually see in nature; i.e., the created world.

What do you think?

[ What do you think?]

I think that the TOE(of DNA) is(or has become) an assault on "spirit" generally and MY spirit and the Holy Spirit specifically.. And that ALL life on this planet are DNA-o-saurs and that "life"(all life) is and was not given with a BREATH from Gods(Spirit)..

BUT HAPPENED some other way.. That life came about in some other way.. Life from NoN life..

AND THAT- life is NOT spirit BUT flesh.. <<- I reject that..

If I may, I believe the predominant Protestant view is that Scripture is inerrant and a literal understanding is preferred over a metaphorical one. Therefore, since God said He created man, He did.

Evolution by blind chance would go out the window in that view.

Some would favor Intelligent Design, other would favor Young Earth Creationism. Still others would say God created an old looking universe some 6,000 years ago (Gosse Omphalus hypothesis.)

IMHO, theistic evolution and/or the idea the God created the initial conditions and then walked away from it --- would be among the least favored by Protestants.