4 January 2013

Mr Looking-both-ways

People who espouse 'theistic-evolution hold two incompatible ideas simultaneously:

1. the universe was created, but in such a way that it is fully explicable without a base in, or even a hint of, the personal-divine, and

2. God did this creating and uses his being the creator (referring to the terms of his activity in the Genesis account) to link his identity to our world-experience, making a god who represents himself by something that has no obvious connection with him!

This peculiar idea quickly falls back to an understanding of the world that is hard to distinguish, in the final analysis, from the idea of a world not created at all.