RE: Atheistic Science Teaching:TE is an oxymoron

pdd@gcc.cc.md.us
25 Aug 1996 17:08:42 EDT

10> Was not the scientific model birthed out of the "nonsupernatural"
10>metaphysical philosophy in the first place? It seems to me that
10>Lyell-cum-Darwin's preference for uniformitarian historical concepts precede
10>any theory of scientific model re: "the origin of species".

10> The root of the term Evolution is naturalistic and atheistic. You
cannot
10>expect a bad root to bear good fruit. Technically then, Theistic Evolution
10>(Naturalism) IS an oxymoron. It appears the TE's are all flailing around
10>screaming "they have no authority", "they have no basis" for defining Evolut
10>as they do. Historically, they DO have basis, culturally, they DO have
10>authority to define E.

10> -- Stelar

You raise a good point, Steve... the fact that evolution has its roots
in atheism and the desire for atheistic explanations for our and the
world's existence. It was the inevitable and only explanation that could
proceed from the assumption that matter and life can only be a product
of itself and not the hand of God. Science that is biased against God's
intervention can only result in evolutionary explanations.

TE is an attempt by many good, determined, brothers and sisters to
dovetail faith with what they believe to be scientifically true.... a
fallible and oft-times deductive life-science called evolution.

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