I have been spending a lot of time recently preparing to teach “protology” at the Iowa Bible Institute (IBI) this summer. While gathering extensive resources and attempting to read whatever I can get my hands on regarding creation and the first few chapter of Genesis, I have also been giving a lot of thought about [...]

Theistic evolution is a serious threat to the Christian worldview. It is a harmful doctrine that compromises Christian theology (especially anthropology and man as image of God) for the sake of upholding Darwin’s theory of common decent. While Scripture teaches that God directly made the first human persons, theistic evolution says man came from non-God [...]

Came across some prophetic words by Kuyper (rectorial address of 1899) this morning, words that also fly in the face of all who are involved with the BioLogos Forum: We can hardly be sufficiently serious in warning all who worship Christ as their realized Ideal to be on guard against every wanton relation with evolution. [...]

This is the final critique of Pete Enns’ attempt to harmonize evolution in Paul’s letters on the BioLogos forum series “Paul’s Adam.” Now the bodies hit the floor: Accepting Paul’s assumptions about human origins means the scientific and archaeological evidence must be ignored or mainstream theories must be replaced with better ones. In simpler words, [...]

As I promised, the straw man re-appears: Paul was an ancient man, not a modern one. Should we expect him, therefore, to share views of the world, of humanity, the cosmos, etc., common to his time? Or, does Paul’s inspired status mean that his view of physical reality transcends his time and place? Has anyone [...]

I actually created my response before I saw this video of Enns. But hey, it works:

In the last post on this series, we examined some of the hermeneutical gymnastics that the committed theistic evolutionist must perform in the text of Scripture. Now, it’s finally time to see where the serious sacrifices are made, first in general, and then specifically with the BioLogos Forum. When Darwinian evolution comprises our worldview (network [...]