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	Probe Ministries - Christian Views of Science and Earth History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Theistic evolutionists essentially believe that the earth and the universe are not only billions of years old, but that there was little, if any, intervention by God during this time.
		Theistic evolutionists, or evolutionary creationists, as many prefer to be called, believe that the first chapter of Genesis is not meant to be read historically, but theologically.
		Theistic evolutionists maintain that the evidence for evolution is so strong that they have simply reconciled their faith with reality.
	www.probe.org /content/view/924/67 (3237 words)

	Evolutionism
		Theistic evolutionists are those who have managed to reach a compromise between two very distinct world-views: creationism and evolutionism.
		Evolutionism, in its purer form, is the idea that this universe is the result of random cosmic accidents.
		Evolutionism is a world-view, which seeks to explain every aspect of this world in which we live.
	www.allaboutphilosophy.org /evolutionism.htm (567 words)

	Creation Science FAQ
		Theistic evolution says there is a God behind the natural processes which cause evolution; atheistic evolution says there is not.
		Theistic evolution must be judged on the basis of theological criteria, not scientific.
		Evolutionism is the basic premise of many religions, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Taoism, Liberal Protestantism, Modernist Catholicism, Reform Judaism, and others, not to mention humanism and atheism, so these all would naturally tend to oppose creation.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzephl0d (13977 words)

	Can Creationism Be Scientific?
		Theistic evolutionism is more liberal, for it maintains that God only created the universe and simple life, not any complex form of life, including humanity.
		To discuss theistic creationism in a science class would be bad because it is not even a potentially scientific theory, and so it would be totally out of place in such a setting.
		It might be said that theistic creationism, especially biblical creationism, is a form of religion, so to teach it as science in the public schools would be to "establish a religion" in the state, which would be a violation of the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/theodore_drange/creationism.html (4489 words)

	In The Beginning God... by Homer C. Hoeksema
		Evolutionism is the view, the theory, that maintains, first of all, that the world began somehow of itself.
		Theistic evolutionism, or progressive creationism, does not operate from the principle of the antithesis of the truth and the lie, of faith and unbelief; but it operates from the principle of synthesis.
		But under the form of so-called theistic evolutionism and progressive creationism the cargo of the evolutionary theory has been smuggled into the church; and thus creation-versus-evolution has become an issue in the church.
	www.prca.org /books/in_the_beginning_god.html (19694 words)

	CSSHS Archives - v14n4p03.htm
		Theistic evolutionism posits the death of living beings (animals and men) as the mechanism of evolution and places it prior to and independent of the Fall of man. It must be pointed out that this is true not only of the death of man but equally of the death of animals.
		Theistic evolutionism ultimately empties the atonement itself of its unique sense of salvation: the death of a Savior as propitiation for the sins of the world, since death is no longer the wages of sin,
		This is one of the dangers from this evolutionism which is as illegitimate in the sciences as it is in the religious domain.
	www.creationism.org /csshs/v14n4p03.htm (1589 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Creationism Works"
		Theistic evolutionism is also called "evolutionary creationism," but since it does not involve a literal reading of the Bible, and because many theistic evolutionists fall on the side of evolution in the creationism vs. evolution debate, many people view it as separate from creationism.
		Theistic evolutionists believe that scripture is generally meant to be allegorical, not factual.
		But in the end, creationism and evolutionism are aspects of personal belief systems that seem to have little to do with politics.
	people.howstuffworks.com /creationism4.htm (560 words)

	NASA's Agenda:Promoting Copernicanism & Evolutionism
		Evolutionism embodies a single spiritual agenda, viz., disqualify and replace the Bible as the source of Truth.
		That Sagan was totally sold on the evolutionary explanation for all that exists is reflected in all his writings (the evolution of the human brain, little telescoping critters on the moon, his famous Cosmos TV series, etc.).
		Of course, Sagan's total commitment to evolutionism (in tandem with Biologist J. Gould at Harvard) was spread far and wide thru his TV Cosmos series and his books at the time computer technology was developing.
	www.fixedearth.com /nasas_agenda.htm (1850 words)

	The Chalcedon Foundation - Faith for All of Life
		The famous (or infamous) "Scopes Trial" of 1925 was a widely publicized show-down between creationism and evolutionism, with the creationist view being publicly derided by the media as foolish and lacking any merit.
		Even the American Scientific Affiliation, the one organization presuming to speak for Bible-believing Christians in the field of science, had capitulated to theistic evolutionism and almost all Christian colleges and seminaries were going along with these Christian intellectuals.
		The few that still rejected theistic evolutionism were either teaching progressive creationism or ignoring the issue via the gap theory (p.
	www.chalcedon.edu /articles/0304/030415wagner.php (1646 words)

	Pun 6.1.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The three most widely discussed tenets in the contemporary dialogues on the issue of creation and/or evolution are fiat creationism, theistic evolutionism, and progressive creationism (1).The three beliefs are reviewed briefly.
		Theistic evolutionism accepts the historicity of the Bible but allegorizes the Genesis account to treat the whole creation story as a "poetic" representation of the spiritual truths of the human's dependence on God their Creator and their fall from God's grace [247] by the symbolic act of disobedience.
		While the hypertraditional fiat creationists and the enlightened theistic evolutionist have been outspoken for some time in Christian circles on the creation and evolution controversy, an increasing number of scholars are revealing that their views are in line with those of the progressive creationists (1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
	www.ibri.org /Books/Pun_Evolution/Chapter6/6.1.htm (636 words)

	The Good News of the Judgment
		If theistic evolution was God's mode of creating then His moral law against murder, stealing, adultery, lying, and coveting is contrary to the "law" of survival of the strongest and the rule of the jungle.
		Those who embrace theistic evolutionism and an earth that is millions of years old will not be willing to take a stand for the Sabbath when the going gets tough and the decree goes forth to worship the Beast and his Image.
		Theistic Evolution and the immortality of the soul are a myth.
	www.presenttruthmag.com /Judgment/85.html (10582 words)

	What's wrong with theistic evolution? - Answers Depot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Not only that, the order in which things are created is different from the order that evolutionism hypothesizes that things came into existence.
		But theistic evolutionists usually attempt to avoid this obvious conflict by saying that Genesis was simply a myth, or a parable of some sort, used to convey some sort of spiritual truth.
		Put plainly, theistic evolutionism is a false doctrine which should be avoided.
	www.answersdepot.com /theisticevolution.html (577 words)

	(DC740) SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Secular evolutionism explains the origins of the world and man from a purely naturalistic perspective, seeing evolution as the only explanation required; God is left out of the picture (whether or not He is admitted to exist).
		Theistic evolutionism views God as the Creator of all through the process of evolution, perhaps conceding that the first man's soul was created directly by God.
		A zoologist provides a well-documented history and critique of the theory of evolution; unfortunately, he argues that old-earth creationism is essentially the same as theistic evolutionism.
	www.equip.org /free/DC740.htm (1579 words)

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		In the course of time, Arthur Short came to see that the real battle was between evolutionism (in whatever form it came) and the infallibility of Scripture.
		In the biography of his father, John Short expresses his own opinion that any form of evolutionism (including, presumably, the Framework Hypothesis) is only another form of higher criticism.
		The author came to the conclusion that a commitment to theistic evolutionism would not enable him to accept as literal these three teachings of Genesis 1 and 2.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?989 (990 words)

	Evolution
		The philsophy behind theistic evolution is completely opposite that of naturalistic evolution.
		Theistic evolutionists theorize that God basically started the whole universe running with the Big Bang, then guided, molded, and slowly formed his creation.
		Theistic evolutionism, in fact, seems to have come from Christians who found the evidence for extreme age and common descent very compelling.
	www3.telus.net /pdbuller/apologetics/evolution.html (1367 words)

	Origins from a Different Angle
		Among those (including myself) who believe in a personal God who has intervened since creation (the theistic view), there are those who view Genesis 1 and 2 as being literally true, the young-earth creationists.
		Theistic evolutionists believe God was present and involved in the development of life, but his work was hidden, perhaps even on a quantum level, so that we will not discover his intervention through empirical means.
		It may be that the only way in the end to choose between theistic evolution and ID will be the empirical method.
	www.thinkingchristian.net /C228303755/E20051209093217/index.html (1193 words)

	Evangelical Affirmations - Chapter 10 - First Response
		If Theistic Evolutionism and Recent Creationism are on the left and the right wing of the evangelical spectrum respectively, Progressive Creationism strives to be in the middle by utilizing the strengths of these positions and avoiding their weaknesses.
		Theistic Evolutionists accept the historicity of the Bible, but some allegorize the Genesis account in order to treat the whole creation account as a "poetic" representation of spiritual truths of
		George Murphy proposes several solutions to this theological question from a theistic evolutionistic perspective: The first humans, the first to reach reflective consciousness and to be endowed with the image of God, consciously turned away and refused to obey the word of God.
	www.ccel.us /EV.ch10a.html (3622 words)

	D:\ASAWEB~1\PSCF\1987\PSCF3-87Pun.htm
		The emphasis on the existential nature of human evil without provision for an adequate historical foundation of Theistic Evolutionism seems to perpetuate this paradoxical mindset; that is, we have to deal with human evil although we are not sure how it came into being historically.
		Many theistic evolutionists accept the historicity of the Bible, but some allegorize the Genesis account in order to treat the whole Creation account as a "poetic" representation of spiritual truths of humans' dependence on God their Creator and of their fall from God's grace by a symbolic act of disobedience.
		If Theistic Evolutionism and Recent Creationism are on the left wing and the right wing of the evangelical spectrum respectively, Progressive Creationism is somewhere in the middle.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/PSCF/1987/PSCF3-87Pun.html (7317 words)

	Evolutionism or Teilhardism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If atheistic and materialistic evolutionism was running rampant "outside the Christian fold" at the time of Pius XII, the so-called theistic evolutionism was, indeed, already prevailing inside the fold of Christ.
		Since this last type of evolutionism admits God's influence upon evolution and the direct creation of the human soul, it was supposed that it could be established in the Catholic Church itself.
		In any case, before evolutionism has ever rigorously proven its hypotheses and the evolutionist theologians and exegetes have come up with arguments much more firmly grounded than their presumed simple-minded "scientific progress," with which they are light-years away from proving the case for evolutionism, these (evolutionists) will have indeed shown themselves to be..:
	www.sspxasia.com /Documents/SiSiNoNo/1998_March/Evolutionism.htm (4303 words)

	Theistic Evolution: What Difference Does it Make
		When at last a suitable hominid was produced (what the Pope called "pre-existent living material"), God allegedly deposited within it a human soul, thus "creating" the first man. Whether or not this was the Adam referred to in Genesis (and in the Gospels and epistles as well), remains unclear.
		I will state my thesis bluntly: theistic evolution is a serious departure from the historic Christian faith, one that represents a grave threat to the spiritual well-being of God's people and the effectiveness of their mission in world.
		For we find that theistic evolution, which at first glance seems a reasonable compromise with "science," not only undermines the biblical doctrine of creation, but the entire biblical world-view.
	www.rae.org /theistic.html (1822 words)

	Common Objections
		What theistic evolutionists have failed above all to comprehend is that the conflict is not over “facts” but over ways of thinking...
		It could be that the chemical origin of a self-replicating molecule (the necessary trigger for the origin of natural selection) was a relatively probable event.
		There is little doubt that the habit of confusing trends with laws, together with the intuitive observation of trends (such as technical progress), inspired the central doctrines of evolutionism and historicism - the doctrines of the inexorable laws of biological evolution and the irreversible laws of motion of society.
	bevets.com /evolutionobjections.htm (2820 words)

	Christian compromises with evolutionism
		Also, I don't believe that the issue of creation versus evolutionism should be a litmus test to become a Christian, or to be considered a "good" Christian.
		10 dangers of theistic evolution for just some of the reasons why this is one of the most important issues facing Christians today.
		The compromises of theistic evolution, progressive creationism and others are based upon faulty interpretations of scripture.
	www.creationists.org /sword.html (741 words)

	Progressive Creationism - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Although most Christians rejected atheistic Evolutionism, many accepted various important aspects of the theory, including the belief that the Earth was billions of years old.
		The three most common ways in which Christians have incorporated billions-of-years into the Bible is by Theistic Evolutionism, the Gap Theory, or Progressive Creationism (also called "Process Creation").
		It is obvious then that Progressive Creationism is a belief which opposes both atheistic evolutionism and historic Christianity's understanding of biblical creationism.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-eden/edn-c009.html (931 words)

	Theistic Evolutionism
		The idea here is that God fully gifted the creation (the physical universe) with all of the properties necessary for life to originate and to evolve into intelligent and spiritual creatures such as human beings.
		Please note that while many committed Christians are Theistic Evolutionists, not all committed Christians are Theistic Evolutionists.
		All forms of Creationism (including Theistic Evolutionism) depend on the concept that God Exists.
	www.godsci.com /gs/crea/theisticevolution.html (363 words)

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