American Majority Accepts Evolution as God-Guided! Is BioLogos part of this?

[Jay313 (Jay Johnson)]

@gbrooks9

You say you are a 100%er … and yet you are pronouncing limitations on how God effects his mutations. How exactly does your 100 percent work … if you think there are methods of mutation off limits to God?

Here’s what I said in April 2018:

@Jay313

Personally, I believe that God guides all of history, not just the biological processes of evolution. Likewise, I believe that God guides each of us in our daily lives. We do not demand detailed explanations of exactly how God’s guidance might work in those situations, yet we demand it of someone who says God guided our biological evolution.

To your question of God’s guidance in everyday life, Dallas Willard outlines a few principles in his book Hearing God , but most often it is through secondary, “ordinary” means, not miraculous interventions. To the outside observer, these appear perfectly mundane, as if nothing at all out of the ordinary had happened. And, if you try to explain an instance of God’s guidance in your life to an unbeliever, they will always have a “reasonable” alternative explanation, which usually comes down to “coincidence.”

Along the same lines, I see no reason why God could not guide evolution through secondary, “ordinary” means that would leave no trace to the outside observer. To demand that God’s guidance be empirically detectable in evolution when it is not in any other situation is an unreasonable demand. And although I can look at the process of evolution through the eyes of faith and see God’s involvement at every step, the unbeliever will always have an alternative “reasonable” explanation, simply because they are determined to find one.