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:

A straw-man argument takes place when someone sets up a false or non-existent argument to knock-down, creating the allusion of victory, when in reality the person didn’t  knock down the real thing, but only a straw-man. In the end, all straw men arguments are failed arguments. They prove nothing. Straw-men arguments are the bread and [...]

Before we discuss the relevance of the Genesis debate and theistic evolution with man made in the image of God, it’s important that we throw on the brakes for a moment to re-orient ourselves in terms of hermeneutics. This really is the issue, after all. No one has struck the balance so nicely as Walter [...]

“If we carefully keep this distinction in mind [the distinction set forth by Catholic theologians] and apply it in our criticism and exegesis of Scripture, it may very well happen that many parts of Scripture, which up until now we had viewed as history, prove upon study not to be history in our sense at [...]

Adam is What? Maybe Israel’s history happened first, and the Adam story was written to reflect that history. In other words, the Adam story is really an Israel story placed in primeval time. It is not a story of human origins but of Israel’s origins. Peter Enns said this about Genesis on March 2 in [...]