Re: Evolutionary creationism

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:21:24 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 3/11/2025 5:06 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:20:56 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:
 
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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.

 
They are NOT in any way contradicting Saint Augustine's admonishment,
they are following it perfectly.
 
If you think differently then like MarkE, you haven't properly grasped
the meaning of what St Augustine meant.
 

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They are trying to force biological evolution into conforming with their
Biblical interpretation.  As such what are they missing about biological
evolution?  Some of them are denying that natural mechanisms were
involved in some of that evolution. 

Please give an example of that.

That is exactly what Saint
Augustine warned against doing.
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This is just the next stage of science denial that some of them will use
their acceptance of some of the science to cover up. 

That is pure conjecture on your part.

Some of them
likely have deistic notions like Denton, and do not require any designer
interference with evolution, but some of them are tweekers like Behe,
and still remain under Saint Augustine's admonishment.

More conjecture on your part. Unless of course you can provide
specific examples.

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These creationists are claiming that some of the existing science is
consistent with their Biblical interpretation, but it is not consistent
with what other creationists believe.  If we rewrote the Bible today
with our current understanding of cosmology we would still be wrong
about some things, and they would have to be rewritten at some later
date.  Saint Augustine's admonishment makes it unnecessary to rewrite or
reinterpret the Bible.
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Ron Okimoto
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