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	Intelligent Design Network :: NM :: Does Theistic Evolution Make Sense?
		While there are varying viewpoints among theistic evolutionists as to whether or not this process is directed or not, evolutionists, because of their philosophical commitment to Naturalism, insist as a matter of dogma that the process of evolution is undirected and without purpose.
		The credibility of theistic evolution as a hybridized theological-scientific theory of origins rests solidly on a single factor - the existence of convincing scientific evidence that shows that the universal common ancestry descent model of evolution is a reliable description of the history of life.
		Those who hold to theistic evolution are urged to objectively re-examine the evidence and then re-evaluate the legitimacy of theistic evolution as an explanation for the history of life.
	www.nmidnet.org /theistic_evo.html (986 words)

	Talk:Theistic Evolution - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A Theistic Evolutionist is a person who accepts that the theory of evolution is the best explanation for the observed diversity of life on earth, and is a theist.
		Theistic Evolutionary beliefs range from the belief of extreme non-interference that God was the cause of the Big Bang (similar to Deism) and that the universe unfolded naturally thereafter, to the other extreme where God is intimately involved in every evolutionary step of every organism on the planet.
		Theistic Evolution is basically the acceptance of evolution, but believing that a deity created evolution/Big Bang/all that stuff as a means to bring the earth into existence.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Talk:Theistic_Evolution (1601 words)

	Theistic Evolution - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Theistic evolution is the concept that evolution is the pen God used when he wrote the 'Book of Life'.
		There is a continuum between theistic evolution and evolutionary creationism, the belief that things evolve but that God intervenes and directs evolution towards a goal (i.e.
		Among modern proponents of theistic evolution are theologian John Haught and astronomer Howard J Van Till.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php/Theistic_evolution (156 words)

	Theistic Evolution: The Fallacy of the Middle Ground
		In the case of theistic evolution, the magisterium of religion is overlapping the magisterium of science.
		Note that theistic evolution is presented as the comfortable middle ground between the two unacceptable extremes of atheism and creationism.
		Theistic evolution is described as a legitimate alternative to scientific evolutionary biology.
	bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca /Evolution_by_Accident/Theistic_Evolution.html (3869 words)

	The Making of Theistic Psychology (2005) by Leon James
		I use the term “theistic psychology” to refer to the knowledge that any person derives from the Writings of Swedenborg by means of the method of correspondences with enlightenment, as prescribed in the Writings.
		The title of my seminar is Theistic Psychology and the one line description varies somewhat from semester to semester, but it always includes the phrases “based on the Writings of Swedenborg” and “rational spirituality.” Some students are attracted to the topic of “spirituality,” which ordinarily refers to “new age” perspectives.
		Theistic psychology is the knowledge that consists of these rational concepts and principles organized into a science (“scientifics of doctrine”).
	www.theisticpsychology.org /articles/making.htm (12951 words)

	PLANTINGA’S REVISION OF THE REFORMED TRADITION:
		In WCB Plantinga is presenting a model of how theistic and Christian belief can be warranted, and his main argument is that there are no plausible objections to this model that do not presuppose the falsity of theism.
		The criticism here is that an important epistemic function of theistic arguments or evidences has been weakened, the necessity of such arguments or evidences for the warranted status of a range of theistic beliefs that form an essential part of the natural knowledge of God.
		Hence, theistic beliefs of this sort, as well as various beliefs about other minds, would be similar to what Stephen Wykstra calls “evidence-essential” beliefs, beliefs for which there must be evidence available, even if a given person does not accept it on the basis of such evidence.
	www.homestead.com /philofreligion/files/WCBSymposiumPaper.htm (5088 words)

	10 dangers of theistic evolution
		Theistic evolution gives a false representation of the nature of God because death and ghastliness are ascribed to the Creator as principles of creation.
		Theistic evolution does not acknowledge Adam as the first man, nor that he was created directly from ‘the dust of the ground’ by God (Genesis 2:17).
		Supporters of theistic evolution (and progressive creation) disregard the biblically given measures of time in favour of evolutionist time-scales involving billions of years both past and future (for which there are no convincing physical grounds).
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v17/i4/theistic_evolution.asp (1793 words)

	Theistic realism - CreationWiki
		Theistic realism is a philosophy based on the idea that God is real, acts in the universe, and is knowable through the senses and reason.
		Theistic realism has also been described by Gerald L. Gutek as the synthesis of the Greek rational philosophy of Aristotle and Christian theology that was systematized in Thomism.
		Johnson asserts that theistic naturalism is an effort by theists to accommodate to academia by "accepting not just the particular conclusions that scientists have reached by also the naturalistic methodology that generated those conclusions." In essence, theistic naturalists do science as though God didn't exist, but then hold "by faith" that he does.
	creationwiki.org /Theistic_Realism (1492 words)

	Theistic Evolution
		Theistic evolution is the belief that life on earth began and developed as described by modern evolution theory, directed by God.
		The primary argument of theistic evolution is that science has “proven” certain facts about biology and the age of the universe.
		Theistic evolution is actually a philosophy that dismisses biblical accounts in favor of scientific theories.
	www.allaboutcreation.org /theistic-evolution-faq.htm (368 words)

	World Seen
		Theistic existentialism is most often linked to Soren Kierkegaard's (1813-1855) reaction against the deadness of the state church of Denmark in the 19th century.
		In a broad sense however, theistic existentialism can be said to believe that there is life after death, and that is where we are headed.
		To the theistic existentialist it is the personal which is the valuable; in other words the subjective truth is what is valuable.
	www.multnomah.edu /worldseen/worldviews/theistic_existentialism.html (1233 words)

	Theistic Psychology by Leon James (2004)
		And the origin of all truth is Divine Speech, which comes forth through the Spiritual Sun from the Divine Human who is in the midst of it, as Swedenborg often observed, and all can observe who dwell in the heaven of their mind, its highest region of consciousness called celestial (see Section xx).
		It is clear therefore that the purposes of religion and theistic psychology overlap with each other, namely, to prepare people for their life in eternity.
		Theistic science eliminates the literal and extracts the universal from it using the prescribed methods that the literal specifies.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /leonj/theistic/extractive-research.htm (4360 words)

	Theistic Evolution: The Illegitimate Marriage of Theism and Evolution
		Theistic evolutionists find themselves estranged from Christians who see evolution as incompatible with a Biblical view of creation, and shunned by the scientific community who dismisses theistic evolution as religion in the disguise of science.
		Theistic evolutionists agree with Darwinian evolutionists concerning the process by which our present world came to be (gradual change over time, "natural" selection), but not the means (random chance events).
		Furthermore, it is evident that theistic evolutionists themselves are not convinced that Darwinian evolution is an irrefutable scientific fact, otherwise they would not feel compelled to add God to the evolutionary equation to fill in the gaps of the theory.
	www.apostolic.net /biblicalstudies/theisticevolution.htm (4861 words)

	Credibility of Christianity at Risk
		Don't misunderstand the objective here: the middle ground of Theistic Evolution is not being promoted here because it may be deemed as a convenient way to bridge the gap between the two extremes.
		Rather, the Theistic Evoltuion viewpoint is considered to have high probability based on both theological and scientific analyses.
		As demonstrated in the diagram, pure evolutionary theory clings to a random existence of matter whereas Theistic Evolutionary theory identifies an Infinite Being as the initial cause and as the Grand Guider of the evolutionary process.
	www.theisticevolution.org /credibility.html (484 words)

	Apologetics Press - What's Wrong with Theistic Evolution?
		Second, some people believe in theistic evolution because they are convinced in their own minds that it not only is not contradictory to the Bible, but is, in fact, quite compatible with the Divine Record.
		Theistic evolution is as old as the acceptance of evolution by the nominal Christian church.
		In commenting on theistic evolution, John Clayton suggested that “While there is no evidence biblically or scientifically to support such a position, these people do have one very excellent point, and that is that this whole subject is totally irrelevant to the question of the existence of God”; (1976, p.
	www.apologeticspress.org /articles/1990 (5614 words)

	I. Evolution and Theistic Naturalism
		Theistic naturalism starts from the premise enunciated by the National Academy of Sciences: religion and science are separate realms of human thought, and a boundary must be drawn between them.
		Some theistic naturalists have been so overawed by the authority of scientists that they have agreed to this sort of division, and virtually obliterated the distinction between theism and atheism.
		For these reasons I respect theistic naturalism as a valiant attempt to make the best of a bad situation, but all it convinces me of is that I am very glad the situation is not really as bad as the theistic naturalists imagine it to be.
	www.apologetics.org /articles/founder1.html (5820 words)

	Selections from Theistic Psychol
		Theistic psychology is at a still higher level of rationality since it is dualist in scope and uses Sacred Scripture to extract scientific revelations.
		Theistic psychology is therefore a universal science of the human mind, independent of historical and religious differences that are expressed in the literal sense of Sacred Scripture.
		Theistic psychology demonstrates that a public school curriculum can teach about God without infringing on the separation of Church and state concern that animates the political life in the United States especially, and elsewhere in the Western world.
	www.soc.hawaii.edu /leonj/theistic/Divine-talk.htm (5320 words)

	Evolution and Chance: Chance from a Theistic Perspective
		The purpose of this FAQ is not to argue that chance events must be seen from a theistic perspective.
		The theistic perspective of dynamic stability neatly removes any metaphysical teeth from the word "Chance." A physical event which is not completely predictable by its initial conditions, such as the result of a quantum measurement, is neither meaningless nor uncaused.
		From a theistic perspective, the interplay of chance and necessity which we see scientifically suggests that the universe is so constructed that (1) God can act personally within it; (2) human beings may exercise their free will within it; (3) the universe can explore its own freedom and potential by an evolving process.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/chance/chance-theistic.html (1692 words)

	Courting the Theists
		Theistic evolution proponents want to keep a foot in each camp, that of traditional religion and that of materialism.
		Now there are "theistic" evolutionists who maintain the party line with regard to undirected evolution but then jump ship when it comes to things like prayer, virgin birth, and other miracles in scripture.
		Those theistic individuals who may not be nor need to be well verse in theology or science, may be easy prey to this subtle misleading strategy.
	www.dlcommunion.org /docs/courting.html (2429 words)

	Methods of Theistic Science
		From the empirical-scientific point of view, the Theistic part of theistic science is a 'theoretical superstructure', to be accepted to a greater or lesser extent.
		In developing Theistic Science, the perpetual tasks are discriminating truth from errors, and to use sources of ideas that tend to be true.
		Theistic science does not proceed by pitting one theory against another and testing out which one wins out by predicting and organizing data in a superior way -- as it is done in materialistic science.
	www.theisticscience.org /method/methods.html (1612 words)

	The varieties of theistic ("traditional") Satanism
		By "primary theistic Satanism," I mean a religion, spirituality, or worldview in which Satan is not only believed in as a literal deity, but is also the primary (or sole) object of worship/reverence/veneration/whatever, or at least as one of the names of one's primary deity.
		Forms of theistic Satanism strongly influenced by the writings of Michael Aquino, founder of the Temple of Set, which itself no longer identifies as "Satanist," but which nevertheless has been a major influence on subsequent Satanist and "Left Hand Path" groups and writers.
		By a "secondary theistic Satanism," I mean a religion or spirituality in which Satan is part of the pantheon and is worshipped, revered, or at least propitiated in some way, at least to some extent, but is not the primary object of worship/veneration/reverence/emulation/whatever.
	www.theisticsatanism.com /varieties/index.html (1341 words)

	Theistic Evolution
		Theistic evolution is the philosophy that God used evolution to create the world.
		Theistic Evolution teaches that satan’s fall is the cause of the judgment that brought the world to its flooded state in Genesis 1:2.
		Theistic Evolutionists argue that the plural word for heavens proves that more than one heaven was created.
	www.exchangedlife.com /sschool/topical/theistic_evol1.htm (2547 words)

	Blue Letter Bible - Help, Tutorials, and FAQs
		The theistic evolutionist holds a position somewhat between that of the absolute evolutionist and the creationist.
		Theistic evolutionists generally side with atheistic evolution teaching that mankind slowly evolved from primitive life forms by means of animal evolutionary stages through long ages.
		Theistic evolutionists consider that modern science has proven evolution to be true therefore they feel the need to make the Scripture teach it.
	www.blueletterbible.org /faq/nbi/619.html (1423 words)

	Absorption States (Jhanas) Within A Theistic Context
		If a theistic mystic experiences union (yoga) with a God of infinite time, then I believe it is reasonable to say that mystic experienced the 6th absorption (jhana).
		If a theistic mystic experiences union (yoga) with a God of infinite being or consciousness, then that would be the same as the 7th absorption (jhana).
		If a theistic mystic experiences union (yoga) with a God in which there is no sensible dimension (flness), then that would be the same as the 9th absorption (jhana), which is otherwise known as the full "Monty" enlightenment (nibbana).
	www.greatwesternvehicle.org /theisticjhana.htm (1067 words)

	Definition of Theistic Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Therefore, when one claims to be a "theistic" evolutionist, he is claiming to believe in both God and evolution at the same time.
		The theistic evolutionist believes organic evolution was simply "the way God did it" as He brought the Universe and its contents into existence.
		For example, the theistic evolutionist believes in: (a) an old Earth; (b) wholly natural processes responsible for life as we see it, once the initial matter was brought into existence by God, and; (c) a figurative (non-literal) interpretation of the Genesis account of creation.
	www.creationists.org /theisticevolution.html (189 words)

	Modal Theistic Arguments
		A modal theistic argument is a proof of the existence of God which makes use of the premise that God is a being who exists in every possible world.
		Given the theistic account of logical space just sketched, it is easy to explain why I think that there can be no modal argument for the existence of God.
		Any modal theistic argument must be question-begging, since it will rely on assumptions about the nature of logical space which can only be supported by the further claim that God actually exists.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/graham_oppy/modal.html (2309 words)

	Theistic Evolution FAQ
		There are many Christian theistic evolutionists, but there are also Jewish, muslim, pagan, polytheistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic ones, and probably many others.
		The theism and the evolution are not related to each other, that is, theistic evolution does not imply calling upon miracles for the creation of life.
		Theistic evolution is different because while nature is believed to be created, natural processes are a sufficient tool for that creation.
	www.geocities.com /wendyschristianpage/theisticevolution.html (1858 words)

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