WL Craig’s book Quest for the Historical Adam has done much more to shake things up in the last 4 years than any other.
But to do it, he has to go back 750,000 years… and he allows for millions of years of hominid evolution…. pretty amazing developments in the literature of “Adam & Eve”!
Craig has acknowledged the significant backlash from both ends of the theological spectrum but has largely dismissed criticisms as often coming from people who haven’t read his book or who misunderstand his arguments. He has specifically addressed critiques from young-earth creationists (like those from Answers in Genesis) and has defended his “mytho-historical” genre analysis against charges that it undermines biblical authority.
His ministry website, Reasonable Faith, frequently features podcasts and articles that further explore and defend these specific positions.
WL Craig continues to refine what he calls his Theological Philosophy….
Has he found the fossil?
If he practised defence law, and I was a confessed, filmed (as in I filmed myself doing every depraved murder), recorded (ditto), DNA’d, man, woman and child, especially child, American serial killer, he’d get me off Scot free.
What fossil?
Quite. There is none. Not even in the text.
If your goal is to write words without communicating thoughts, you are succeeding admirably.
The fossil of Love, gs. That which would make faith superfluous. The proof of transcendent Love as the ground of eternal being. No metaphysics necessary.
WLC once said something like “My greatest nightmare is that Young Earth Creationism might be true.”
And probably Einstein’s as well!
That the always smiling, right wing, fundamentalist, post hoc philosopher, fears that, fits. No biologist does.
Mr Ewoldt, greetings. I’m really puzzled–that doesn’t sound to me like anything I have heard him say before. I Googled it, and couldn’t find it. Do you have a reference? I’m not sure why he would be afraid of it. At one time, I sincerely opposed my geology prof about it (and he kindly discussed with me). Thanks.
My greatest nightmare is that the Earth really is flat with a solid dome.
My greatest fear is that the Hokey Pokey really is what it is all about.
But that would prove God’s existence!
I laughed a very satisfying laugh. THOSE WORDS, my dear sir, are
going on my gravestone !!!
And neither do creation biologists or intelligent design biologists.
LOL. Thank you.
Nor flat earth geologists, nor YEC cosmologists, astronomers, geologists, biologists, nor anti-vax immunologists.
Ed. All more unneeded proof of evolution; survival of the fittest is a very low bar. It’s not survival of the very best possible. It’s survival of the that’ll do. Regardless of the absurd, non-competitive, side effects.
Yes, survival of the fit enough is a far more accurate description than “fittest”, as if “fittest” can even be meaningfully defined in a biological context.
W L Craig is arguing for Adam and Eve as exclusive genetically ancestral to all modern humans, which requires pushing them pretty far back, in light of population genetic data, in contrast to their being representatives out of an existing population, or “genealogical” ancestors - in everyone’s family tree but not exclusive of other contemporaries, or purely symbolic. There is little data on which to base a decision between such possible ideas of how to harmonize the account in Genesis with the available scientific data on the physical ancestry of humans.
Being human, we can’t rule out the possibility that some young-earth model might exist that better matches the data than our current understanding. But current YEC claims about science and history definitely are wrong.
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