“Two Irreconcilable Worldviews”
Just in case any of you might have missed the significance of February 8-12, February 8-10 was “Evolution Weekend,” February 10 “Evolution Sunday” and February 12 “Darwin Day.” For the past two years some educators and clergy have set aside these days to celebrate the significance of Darwin’s influence on the world. Some of this as well as a few references in opposition to it is pointed out in Alan Boyle’s article at msnbc.com “Evolution Goes to Church” (for beneficial reactions against “Evolution Sunday,” click here and here). In his blog entry yesterday, Dr. Albert Mohler states an irreconcilable difference between evolutionary thought and biblical theism: “The dominant theory of evolution — the theory as taught and defended by the world’s leading evolutionary scientists — explicitly rules out any supernatural design or interference at any point in the evolutionary continuum. That fact alone makes the theory incompatible with any legitimate affirmation of divine creation or of biblical theism.” For his entire post, check out his helpful article “Two Irreconcilable Worldviews.”
February 16th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Sorry I missed it. If you still want to celebrate, I found this site to be quite interesting: https://www.thankgodforevolution.com. The book, by the same name, is available as a free download.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Yes, I am familiar with him, Bill. Though I have not read Michael Dowd’s Thank God for Evolution, I have seen his name on the internet and I saw where he visited Answers in Genesis’s Creation Museum. Take a look at “Evolution Evangelist Visits Creation Museum.”
I went to his FAQ and listened to “How did you go from being an anti-evolution fundamentalist to being America’s evolutionary evangelists.” This was disappointing in that he did not ground anything in objective propositional revelation. I would suspect that Dr. Jonathan Sarfati’s Refuting Evolution 2 is not one of his favorite books.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Dowd’s view of scripture is quite heretical: “For me, scripture is everything that inspires and encourages me to grow in evolutionary integrity. If a poem, chapter in a book, website, or movie helps me grow in Christ-like humility, authenticity, responsibility, and service to others???then for me, it is scripture. Writings and other artifacts that do not support me in this process I do not consider scripture, even if they appear on a page of the Bible” from “Thank God for Evolution!”, p. 309. Publishers just love to pump this postmodern poppycock. Sadly, people subscribe to this thinking everyday. Dowd is another example of a man making himself the final authority.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
I agree with your that this is a heretical statement. When anyone jettisons the authority of propositional revelation, disaster abounds.