The god of theistic evolution is very much a return to Deism, with its empty speculation about the cosmos.
Quotes and comments;
1. "See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain. - Ex. 25:40
- God gave precise instructions on how the tabernacle was to be built, and how things like the ephod and the breastplate were to be constructed; but yet the theistic evolutionist tells us that God took no part in designing this planet or the life forms that inhabit it. Do they have an explanation for this contradictory behavior? I see in these activities confirmation of special creation and the particular care with which God created all things.
We see that God takes an interest in details, that He himself is possessed of a creative imagination. (I think we see that God has pleasure not only in creation but in the particulars of creation.) Why would a God who cares about the design of clothes for the high priest not care about the design of the eagle or the bear? The theistic evolutionist gives us a God who has no interest in anything... and I find this very strange indeed. Surely the more intelligent a person is the more interested they are in being creative and the more they enjoy the details of things.
The god of theistic evolution is not the God of the Bible, as he's merely a passive spectator and not an active creator. Instead of a God whose works man finds awesome and wondrous theistic e. gives us a god who is amazed by what has happened during evolution. ("How is all this possible?" he must ask himself. "I wish I had someone to tell me.")
To replace creation with e. requires a person to adopt a new god as well.
We might add that the same people who find passages like the above embarassing also find special creation embarassing. For one reason or another they don't want a 'hands on' God, they don't want a God who is interested in particulars and in small things. They want a god content to stand far off and to beam at them like a parent watching his child perform on stage. (The theistic evolutionist wants more credit for 'discovering' some thing than he wants to give God for creating it; and since God didn't actually create anything all the credit goes to man for having understood the uncreated world. An uncreated world makes man the wisest being in the universe.) Charles Darwin called evolution a grand view of life, and it certainly is if your objective is to glorify man.
The theistic evolutionist believes in a schema that has no empirical warrant; no one has ever seen such a thing as life emerge spontaneously from non-life and no one has the slightest idea of how such a thing could even be possible. (One wonders where all his critical powers have disappeared to.) The study of the world has devolved into an attempt to save naturalism from its critics.
2. "Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. - Luke 12:7
- Jesus told people that their hairs were all numbered. Since the t.e. doesn't believe god was involved in creation they give us the odd picture of a God who didn't create the human hair but merely numbers
them.
We also read in the bible that God wrote the ten commandments with
his own hand on stone tablets. How does the T.E. understand this in
terms of his distant god who had no part in creation? We might wonder
what right God has to give laws to creatures he never created. (Special
creation speaks of a God who both created man and gave him the law; and
both man and the law are the 'image' of the same God.)
Summary;
The idea of a purely naturalistic evolution being responsible for all life on earth (and not all OECs go this far) involves a radical 'rewriting' of the entire bible.
- Michael Johnson
Notes;
1. How do we explain the hands off approach of 'naturalistic' evolution with the very hands on example of writing the Law? Again there's a contradiction here. Genesis tells us of a God who created man out of the dust (or the ground) and Exodus tells us of a God who wrote His law on the 'dust' (i.e. stone) of the ground. We see real participation in the physical world. (We might think of Jesus writing in the dust of the ground as well... perhaps some verse from the Law? e.g. perhaps ''both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.'' Perhaps just the word both?)
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