4 October 2018

Wright and Christ

NT Wright has recently been to a Biologos conference and inferred that if Christ is creator, then evolution makes sense. It seems that Wright looses the plot as to the ontology of the Bible: creation in Genesis does what he sees as important in the temple, it brings God and man to fellowship.

In creation this is only so if the creation's reference is tangibly real, otherwise it refers to some other thing that, if it is evolution, points away from God (e.g. Peter Singer's views on Darwin de-linking humanity and Christian tradition), but whatever it is, it is not what the Bible reports and therefore we cannot rely on the creation account to show God in fellowship with man, or man as God's image.

Therefore, there emerges pretty quickly an epistemological problem: which bits of Genesis 1-11 attach to what is real, and which do not; and how would we know.