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Author Topic:   Is Theistic Evolutionist An Oxymoron?
nwr
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Message 6 of 83 (575420)
08-19-2010 11:09 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Buzsaw
08-19-2010 10:12 PM


I remember at one time, my pastor used to say "It's not chance, it's God" and "It's not luck, it's God." Theistic evolutionists are just going with this idea with respect to genetic mutations.
Buzsaw writes:
I think it is an oxymoron. I see it as a vain attempt to gain the best of both ideologies; that of secularisim which essentially absolves one from contradicting establishment scientific academia and that of theism which offers a purpose for existence and a hope of a blissful existence beyond this life.
Really, that's just silly. Secularism is a matter of keeping religious bias out of administrative matters. It does not imply atheism.

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nwr
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Message 26 of 83 (575741)
08-20-2010 10:26 PM
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08-20-2010 10:15 PM


Re: Re. What Is Silly?
Buzsaw writes:
What's really silly is to keep the ID Biblical record out of Biblical theism.
Nobody is doing that, as far as I know. People are only trying to keep ID out of the science classroom.

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