Esau and Theistic Evolution

One of the passages from the bible that I've always puzzled over (and one should do this for a lifetime, before rejecting any of them) is the one where Esau surrenders (sells) his birthright for a bowl of stew.

- This has always struck me as impossibly strange... but recently it occurred to me that our theistic evolutionists, when they breezily accept Darwinism have done much the same, if not worse. I'm staggered when I read people like Polkinghorne, and how they breezily accept the 'fact' Darwin destroyed the design argument. (Faith of a physicist) They give up the idea of biblical creation as if it were a bauble; as less than a bowl of stew. (Not even soup in a cup.) They toss it aside like an empty candy wrapper. [And thus despise their birthright.]

- What's the explanation? (I don't believe P. is any kind of reprobate, or that he's insincere.) As I see it (and I can't know) they either don't think the doctrine of creation is important, or they don't want it to be. e.g. they don't want to embrace any doctrine that would mean their expulsion from 'polite' (i.e. PC) society; they don't want to have to deal with the social implications; they don't want limitations on their thinking, etc.

- The bible presents a very different picture of things.
"All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life and the life was the light of men" (John 1:3-4).

- This verse alone should suffice to do away with the notion of theistic evolution. (Theistic evolution being a contradiction in terms) We see here that the Son made all the things. (i.e. not some blind, random process.)
Theistic evolutionists will say; yes of course Christ created all things; in the sense he invented the wonderful process we call evolution. ("Thank god for evolution" as one book title comically says.) If we're to accept this we must believe and accept that Intelligence itself used a non-intelligent process; that the Personal used an impersonal process; that the Governor of the universe used a random process; that the One who sees all used a blind process; that the Logos used an irrational process. This makes no sense to me.

- What kind of revelation of God is Christ if instead of creating all things (as the bible declares) he only turned some kind of switch on and letter matter in motion, responding to the laws of physics, do its thing? Is that what Yahweh is like? We see no revelation of God's moral and holy character in the 'program' of evolution; for as we're told continually by our school teachers (and how could they be wrong, or dare to lie) there is no moral nature to evolution. (The bible on the contrary presents to us the picture of a holy god creating all things in a state of perfection. e.g. He didn't create man with the irrational instincts of animals raging within him. (This is the model offered to us by theistic evolutionists.)

- What can one say? Some people prefer slop to the real thing. (Some people would prefer to be drunk than to be sober.)

Notes;
1. "And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red [pottage]; for I [am] faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I [am] at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised [his] birthright."
- Esau could care less it would seem. (The NLT translates this, he was 'indifferent' to his birthright, and went about his business...) The theistic evolutionist is the same. He doesn't, he feels, need this old creation myth. He has no need of it, as he can fabricate one of his own, one that tastes much better.

2. If Adam was just an evolved animal, then Christ as the second animal was/is merely an evolved animal as well. (Like Esau, the theistic evolutionist has given up far more than he realizes; and indeed he gives up far more than Esau ever did.)
- if it's true (as some claim) that Esau made his way back from his apostasy, we can only hope some of our theistic evolutionists will as well.