Evolution != Atheism (re: the Rejection of Theism in Evolution)

How so?

I am afraid that this topic is drifting. Lets please stick to the OP.

As interesting as all of this is can we not bring down the Admin's wrath on my topic. I don't want to abandon the hope of the OP spawning an actual on topic discussion just yet.If it is not related to the the rejection of Theistic Evolutionism by Biblical Creationists then please kindly start a new topic.

I am going to agree with you on the focus of the topic. It is possible to have a belief in "a god" and rationalize that belief with evolution. This thread in particular is asking why do some people, Biblical Creationists in particular, reject the ability for their fellow believers to accept evolution. Another type of belief system, while interesting, isn't necessarily being disputed by a specific group of people. Theistic evolution is being disputed either directly or indirectly by the quotes I listed in my OP. This I am going to go ahead and disagree with. Most Theistic Evolutionists I know take Genesis and other parts of the OT as very much a borrowed mythology. While it may have some spiritual signifigance, it is no way is an accurate description of creation or God's role in creation. Given that it is our only insight into creation given in the Bible, it is only speculation as to how much God was or was not involved with the different aspects of creation. Personally, I believe that God created the entire universe with all of its properties which includes free will for the life and matter therein. I believe that God can intervene on our behalf when he wishes but for the most part lets us exercise the gift of our free will as he has given it to us.You seem to be saying that I am forced to believe that God did it all or that there is no God. Why is this so? Given that we can point to Genesis and show its borrowed nature why should Christians be forced to have ANY particular view on the creation event whatever it was. So what if I believe that God is an entity that exists within the universe or is the universe or is outside the universe in some kind of cloudy extra dimension. The criteria for being a Christian is believing that God, from wherever he exists, came down and decided to be a man in order to save us from our sins.Now. How can we get Biblical/Genesis Creationists to stop demeaning their other brothers and sisters in Christ who don't believe that Genesis was written by the hand of God?

I try to use healthy skepticism when it comes to the Bible. If there is a particular book of the Bible that history shows to be a borrowed myth from another culture then I have reason to be skeptical of that book.Basically everything has to stand up on its own. For a lot of the Bible I have no reason to reject or affirm it based on the history that I know so I make up my own mind about it. I don't pick and choose because if I did there would be a whole bunch of stuff that I would toss out that I do not necessarily like. Children often do not like the rules of their parents but they still (hopefully mostly) follow them.There is good reason to doubt Genesis which is why I do. People can splice it up however they like but the creation and the flood are both borrowed myths with a twist. It takes quite a huge mental contortion to not acknowledge the similarities to other mythologies that pre-date the Bible and that they are not 2, often contradictory, stories of both the creation event and the flood. I simply take Genesis for what it is; a historically innacurate mythology maintained in the Bible for historical reasons.