Re: Packer quote

Preston:

> Group,
>
> I'm fairly sure I've seen somewhere a quote from J.I. Packer to the
> effect that he doesn't think that there is any Biblical/exegetical
> reason to rule out evolution as a means of creation. Does anyone know
> where he might have said this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Preston G.

James I. Packer

(J.I. Packer is professor of historical and systematic theology at
Regent College.)

"It should be remembered, however, that scripture was given to reveal
God, not to address scientific issues in scientific terms, and that, as
it does not use the language of modern science, so it does not require
scientific knowledge about the internal processes of God's creation for
the understanding of its essential message about God and ourselves."
(J. I. Packer, 1988, God Has Spoken, p. 170)

"I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, and maintain it in print, but
I cannot see that anything Scripture says, in the first chapters of
Genesis or elsewhere, bears on the biological theory of evolution one
way or the other. On the theory itself, as a non-scientist, watching
from a distance the disputes of experts, I suspend judgment." (J. I.
Packer, 1978, The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem, p. 5)

Keith B. Miller
Research Assistant Professor
Dept of Geology, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-3201
785-532-2250
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
Received on Wed Oct 13 23:48:52 2004