You have been told repeatedly that this is NOT what those
who accept evolution think at all, and yet you continue to vomit it up.
Your formula is meant to be simplistic and «powerful», but your understanding of really large numbers is what is actually what is holding you back
from accepting evolution as being true.
This is not valid, but I will give him that most
atheists accept evolution, because they have no reason to dismiss the overwhelming scientific consensus.
He said that he is expecting objections on these points from some quarters, but feels that these are the full implications for traditional Christian teaching
of accepting evolution.
Since an athiest is excluded from the first two options that leaves you from 3 - 11 % you can add to the god evolved group
for accepting evolution.
The creationists who confront us are biblical literalists and, contrary to Johnson, there are many people who believe that God creates and who
also accept evolution.
And even today when we have pretty
much accepted evolution as universal, we still, unconsciously perhaps, exclude time from this universal law.
Yes, religious liberals have
accepted evolution pretty much from the time Charles Darwin first proposed it, but in contrast to Darwin many of them believe that evolution is purposeful and that nature has a spiritual dimension.
In this book Peter Enns seeks to give Christians, who value Scripture as the Word of God, parameters by which they can understand the Bible and its message
while accepting evolution as a valid description of the origin of humans.
Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory but a reactionary idea for people who are unable
toe accept that evolution is the most rational and reasonable way that life progresses.
There is Catholicism, which has
formally accepted evolution, and have declared demonstratively impossible Bible passages as allegory rather than literal truth.
You
begrudgingly accept evolution (about a century after Darwin proved it and after accepting Genesis as literally true for about 2,000 years) and that Adam and Eve was totally made up, but then conveniently ignore that fact that your justification for Jesus dying on the cross (to save us from Original Sin) has therefore been eviscerated.
It's as if people are saying «ok, ok, let's say there is evolution and there are other scientific theories, but let's insist that something we don't really know and can't prove but totally believe in is behind it all, because otherwise we can't
possibly accept evolution and other scientific theories.»
A timeline describes the declension from the biblicism of Martin Luther and John Calvin to the thought of Descartes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Darwin and Charles Hodge (he may be an archconservative to most Presbyterians, but his acceptance of Darwinism lands him in the hall of shame here) to a certain Charles Templeton, who once traveled with Billy Graham but
unfortunately accepted evolution and ended up writing the atheist tract Farewell to God.
The exploratory research, published in the scientific journal CBE — Life Sciences Education, looked at how instructors perceived their role in helping
students accept evolution.
If you
define accepting evolution as rejecting a belief in God, then that may not be an appropriate goal,» said Elizabeth Barnes, co-author of the study and a graduate student in Brownell's lab.