Tag: theistic evolution
An Uncommonly Clear Discussion of Human Origins
As Ann Gauger explains, there’s a gap of about a million years between when Australopithecines seem to depart from the fossil record and when modern humans unambiguously appear.
Adam and the Genome and Whale Fossils
We don’t find the “pattern” that evolution predicts “should be found in the fossil record at certain times.” Rather, we find that truly aquatic whales appear abruptly.
Hmm, Much of Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome Isn’t About Adam and the Genome
Venema seems much more interested in pursuing longstanding debates with intelligent design and with certain ID proponents.
“Thomists Versus Thomas”
Remarkably parallel struggles go on, as well, in Protestant and Jewish circles, whether the debate focuses on C.S. Lewis or Maimonides, Augustine of Hippo or Samson Raphael Hirsch.
#10 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Nobel Laureate Is “80 Percent” Confident in Intelligent Design
He compares design in evolution to human creativity, and concedes that his ideas about ID may not be consistent with traditional theism.