Sujet : Evolutionary creationism
De : rokimoto557 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (RonO)
Groupes : talk.originsDate : 10. Mar 2025, 23:20:56
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https://biologos.org/common-questions/what-is-evolutionary-creationhttps://biologos.org/common-questions/how-is-biologos-different-from-evolutionism-intelligent-design-and-creationismQUOTE:
Evolutionary Creation (EC) is a Christian position on origins. It takes the Bible seriously as the inspired and authoritative word of God, and it takes science seriously as a way of understanding the world God has made. EC includes two basic ideas. First, that God created all things, including human beings in his own image. Second, that evolution is the best scientific explanation we currently have for the diversity and similarities of all life on Earth.
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The Identity of BioLogos
Core Values
Christ-centered Faith — We embrace the historical Christian faith, upholding the authority and inspiration of the Bible.
Rigorous Science — We affirm the established findings of modern science, celebrating the wonders of God’s creation.
Gracious Dialogue — We strive for humble and thoughtful dialogue with those who hold other views, speaking the truth in love.
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It looks like Biologos consists of Christians with some knowledge of science that want to fit what nature actually is into a Biblical context. They seem to be a diverse group with some of them being evangelical Christians. Essentially they want to do what the Reason to Believe old earth anti-evolution creationists have not been able to do.
It seems like they understand the limits of science, and they are not trying to rewrite a cosmic mythology to replace the one that the Hebrew inherited from their neighbors. These neighbors may have been civilized for thousands of years before the Israelites, but their flat earth cosmology is pretty far off the mark. Any attempt to rewrite the Biblical creation mythology would be subject to future rewriting as a better understanding of nature continues to unfold. They just seem interested in conforming what we currently understand about nature with a few chosen Biblical claims about our existence in this universe.
They are not trying to get their religious beliefs taught in the public schools. Unlike the Reason to Believe old earth creationists that have undertaken the impossible task of trying to take the Bible as literally as possible. The Biologos creationists seem to have given up on doing that. Instead they seem to be picking out parts of the creation mythology that they might be able to conform to what we know about nature. They are theistic evolutionists and some of them are supernatural tweekers like Behe that have not given up on their god's supernatural involvement in the evolution of life on earth.
The Biologos creationists differ from the ID perps by how they approach science. The ID perps focus on gap denial, while the Biologos creationists focus on claiming that their god can be responsible for what we already understand about nature. They are still not abiding by Saint Augustine's admonishment about not using the Bible to make claims about what we can determine for ourselves about nature, so my guess is that their efforts can still fail to represent nature accurately depending on how consistent with the Bible that they want to be.
Ron Okimoto