From: PASAlist@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 22:06:33 EDT
In a message dated 08/28/2002 10:27:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
douglas.hayworth@perbio.com writes:
<< I would be very interested to know there exists people who are at the same
time practicing charismatics (for lack of a better term) and evolutionists
(also for lack of a better term). For example, does anyone know an
evolutionary biologist who is an active member of an Assembly of God
church? I would like to think that such people do exist, even if they are
rare. >>
As Jon mentioned most charismatics are not sufficiently educated
scientifically to espouse evolution, and are therefore generally YECs. At the
same time, there are some who are both charismatic and believers in
evolution, such as Denis Lamoureaux who has one Ph.D in theology and another
one in evolution (of the jaw in particular). It is primarily a matter of
education, but at the same time it is my experience that those with a
fundamentalistic theology who are more experience-oriented in their
Christianity (which is more common amongst charismatics) are not as prone to
be upset by interpretations of Genesis which do not hold to a rigid
literalistic view. I think this goes back to whether God or a book is
ultimate for them on a practical level. I know that John Whitcomb said that
his next priority after promoting creation science was to attack the tongues
movement. So, there seems to be some kind of correlation between
openness/closedness to evolution and openness/closedness to charismatic gifts.
Paul.
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