Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Theistic evolution and Dualism

When theistic evolutionists claim that while man's body evolved from the slime and eventually from the apes, man's mind was given to him directly by god, they're engaging in a form of dualism. They've created a split between the mind and body; they've made man not one but two; and two parts which have a radically different origin. (This is like saying one Person in the Trinity evolved from the slime, while the other two Persons didn't; or that they each had radically different origins, or came into being at radically different times.)

- Taking the Trinity seriously discourages the compromising speculation of the theistic evolutionists. (So called theistic evolution is neither biblical or 'scientific' (i.e. naturalistic) but simply Humanism.)

- The persons of the Trinity are in perfect harmony. Since man was made in the image of god; this leads me to think Adam was a harmonious whole, not some disparate mixture of animal and spirit. (With a brain cobbled together out of disparate parts; with a lizard brain, a lemur brain, and so on.) Man was created an embodied soul; he was created by God in complete form, not some ape like figure who got 'zapped'.

- Having adopted a faulty model of man, the theistic evolutionist goes on to adopt faulty models of psychology, sociology, theology and so on. He sees man as laboring under this primitive heritage; sees human problems as having their source in this primitive ancestry. This is radically unbiblical. Man's problem isn't that he has a conflict between his animal heritage and his spiritual endowment; but that he desires to rebel against God by committing sin.

Notes;
1. An excellent book on the Trinity is 'Trinity and Reality' by Ralph Allan Smith. (The whole book is posted online at books. google.com)