Territorial Bloggings

Over at Lutherama, the good Dr. has a very good posting outlining precisely Why Evolution and God Driven Creation Cannot Co-Exist.

Round about 10 or so years ago, I had worked myself into a place where I thought that theistic evolution was OK. I wasn’t as well read as I am now (not that I’m all that deep now, it’s just that I try harder…), and I was smack in the middle of my 12 year southern exile, during which I was living down where there were “Babdists” & heathens, and where being Lutheran got you looks almost as dirty as if you said you were Catholic.
On an intellectual level, theistic evolution was a nice compromise. It wasn’t as “evil” as straight-up Darwinism, but it allowed for some rational compromise by what “observable scientific facts” had told us just had to be true. Besides, I thought, if God was omnipotent, then we certainly shouldn’t limit Him by saying that theistic evolution wasn’t possible.

I was wrong.

Certainly God could work through an evolutionary process. It’s just that He told us that He didn’t. The Bible is clear on that — God’s own Word uses clear & simple language to describe how He created the world (our “young earth”) in 6 24-hour days. We (i.e., our sinful human intellect) might not be willing or able to fathom it, but that doesn’t change the reality. God is not limited by our broken state & sin-based lack of understanding. He allows us to take comfort in His simple & clearly stated Word.

We don’t need to understand or know, we just need to trust and believe. That is how God comforts us & holds us close to Him.

Yay!

-ghp