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Author Topic:   What is a Creationist?--Weekly Question # 1 Week of 3/12/01
Thmsberry
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03-14-2001 6:07 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by lbhandli
03-13-2001 5:37 PM


Wow,
That Talkorigins link is good again. I think it provided a fair analysis of a complex subject.
I would make one difference in the ordering of the spectrum.
I believe that Evolutionary Creationism should come after Theistic Evolution and right before Methodological Materialistic Evolution.
The theistic definition of "God" still lives in the literal realm of Understanding the Bible and one could go further as I do and say it looses major relevance outside of the Nicean council that was completely unrelated to the old testament views of "God".
To say it another way, Evolutionary Creationism takes in account three "higher" levels of understanding of what "God" is. Levels that are not limited by and don't even agree with the theistic definition, when taken in entirety. So it would be incorrect or incomplete, to see oneself still in the realm of Theism with Evolutionary Creationism.
Also, The dividing line between Evolutionary Creationism and Methodological Materialistic Evolution would be whether "God" "knows" the future evolutionary events before they in fact happen.
The distinction of whether or not "God" inteferes is no longer relevant because in Evolutionary Creationism "All" is a part of "God". So when natural contingent processes are occurring, this is in fact the "work" of "God". What man calls miracles are merely natural processes that can be but are not always contingent and that we simply don't understand. And these processes themselves are in fact a part of what is called "God". It's theism, by definition, that makes this sort of separation between What is "God" and What is nature. It's theism, by definition, that "God" "operates" unnaturally in the natural universe.
In addition, I hope this post better clears up where I stand in the continuum. If not, let me know, I can go into more detail.

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