New book explaining why EC is wrong

[cwhenderson (Curtis Henderson)]

@Bill_II

First a few quotes from the Introduction

But this is a book about theists who contest the place of modern science in Christianity. The charge laid at the doorstep of theistic evolutionists is that the doorstep is exactly where they leave their religious commitments when they enter the house of science.

I commend this book as providing an unprecedented opportunity for educated nonscientists to revisit the spirit of the Reformation by judging for themselves what they make of the evidence that seems to have led theistic evolutionists to privilege contemporary scientific authority above their own avowed faith.

Theistic evolution should be understood as a deformation that results under these conditions. Its advice to the faithful is to keep calm, trust the scientific establishment, and adapt accordingly, even if it means ceding the Bible’s cognitive ground.

Some proponents of theistic evolution openly affirm that the evolutionary process is an unguided, undirected process.

In any case, where theistic evolution is understood to affirm the creative power of the neo-Darwinian and/or other evolutionary mechanisms and to deny actual, as opposed to apparent, design in living organisms—i.e., the third meaning of evolution discussed above—the concept becomes deeply problematic.

The basis of the book appears to be EC’s don’t allow God to be behind the process of evolution. I don’t know any EC that would affirm this.

I wrote this a few days ago…

"Kremlinology"? Discovery Institute's Glass House

I completely agree with David on this point. There were a lot of “shenanigans” during that time period. From my relatively sparse interactions with ID proponents over the last few years, I do believe that they are headed in the right direction integrity-wise. However, the common sentiment seems to try ignore those incidents rather than confront and reject them.

Now I find myself questioning if I’ve let a few nice people fool me.