Here is Erickson's model #4, Theistic Evolution:
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Theistic Evolution
Theistic evolution has much in common with deistic evolution, but goes
beyond it in terms of God's involvement in and with his creation. God
began the process by bringing the first organism to life. He then
continued by working internally toward his goal for the creation. At
some point, however, he also acted supernaturally, intervening to
modify the process, but employing already existing materials. God
created the first human being, but in doing so utilized an existing
creature. God created a human soul, and infused it into one of the
higher primates, transforming this creature into the first human.
Thus, while God specially created the spiritual nature of Adam, man's
physical nature is a product of the process of evolution.
Theistic evolution has no great difficulty with the scientific data,
since it teaches that the physical dimension of man arose through
evolution. Thus it can accommodate any amount of evidence of
continuity within the process which resulted in man. With respect to
the biblical data, theistic evolution often holds to an actual primal
pair, Adam and Eve. When this is the case, there is no difficulty
reconciling theistic evolution with Paul's teaching regarding the
sinfulness of the race. In dealing with the opening chapters of
Genesis, one of two strategies is followed. Either it is asserted
that Genesis says nothing specific about the manner of man's origin,
or the passage is regarded as symbolic. In the latter case, "dust"
(2:7), for example, is not taken literally. Rather, it is interpreted
as a symbolic reference to some already existing creature, a lower
form than man. This particular interpretation will warrant further
scrutiny after we have examined the final option.
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Any comments? Terry? Glenn?
God bless.
Stephen