Theistic Evolution

Theistic evolution is the idea that God started or directed evolutionary processes. This view makes God a bumbling, incompetent Creator and the author of death and suffering as it puts them before mankind’s sin. It calls into question the truth of God’s Word and his character as an all-powerful, loving God.

Theistic Evolution and Christians

The essence of theistic evolution is “God started it all and he is still watching over his creation.” Regardless of any good intentions, theistic evolutionists twist Scripture and weaken the fabric of biblical doctrine.

Theistic Evolution Assumptions

In theistic evolution, the Bible is regarded as a collection of documents which partially contains God’s Word. The Bible thus contains no authoritative, binding truths, but must be freshly interpreted and corrected for every era and in every situation.

God in Evolution?

Christians who adopt evolution are inconsistent because they are accepting the foundation of the humanistic worldviews. Essentially, they are telling God that they believe Him when He told us about the Virgin Birth, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ, but they do not trust Him when He tells us about how He created the world.

Compromise in Christian Leaders

Some respected Christian leaders, famous for defending the fundamentals of the faith against compromise, were guilty of their own compromise. None of us, including any particular scholar (no matter how respected he is), or even the majority of scholars or Christians, can be the final authority for determining truth. God’s Word must be the authority.

Articles About Theistic Evolution

  • Magazine Department Article
    Design-Denier Wins Religious Reward
    Oct. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

    The prestigious Templeton Prize, which honors progress in our understanding of “spiritual realities,” was recently given to a Catholic priest who denies intelligent design.

  • Einstein Letters Show Views on the Bible and Christianity
    May 17, 2008

    The private religious thoughts of the world’s most famous genius were up for sale this week in a London auction.

  • Ken Miller and Culture War
    Nov. 24, 2007

    It seems one of evolutionary theory’s biggest defenders, biologist Ken Miller, has come around to AiG’s point of view. At least, that’s one way to look at his recent comments!

  • Creationists accused of Nazism by fellow Christian
    June 11, 2007

    Paul Taylor recently debated Michael Weekes, a theistic evolutionist, on a radio program. Weekes attempted to cover his weak theology and lack of scientific knowledge with inflammatory rhetoric.

  • Pope Benedict: Theistic Evolutionist
    April 14, 2007

    For the first time in his papacy, Pope Benedict has “elaborat[ed] his views” on human origins.

  • Feb. 26, 2007 from Answers Magazine

    The idea of evolution is a faith-based teaching that has infiltrated even the most reputable of Christian colleges, ministries and organizations.

  • A Date With Ken Miller
    Nov. 9, 2006

    On October 26, Brown University biology professor Dr. Kenneth Miller, the Catholic, evolutionist author of the compromising book Finding Darwin’s God, visited Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • May 8, 2006 from Answers Magazine

    According to Lord Bertram Russell if human beings do not kill each other through wars, they will probably die of starvation or disease.

  • The “Sad and Sorry god” of Theistic Evolution
    Oct. 25, 2004

    Some of America’s best-known evolutionists assembled recently at “Evolution and God—150 years of love and war between science and religion,” a major conference held in Cleveland, Ohio.

  • Why I Rejected Theistic Evolution
    Jan. 12, 2004

    Theistic evolution is a significant threat to the Christian church. It undermines the very foundation of the Christian faith and causes people to doubt the truth of Scripture.

  • Anglican Physicist-Turned-Clergyman Wins Templeton Prize
    March 15, 2002

    ohn C. Polkinghorne, a British mathematical physicist who resigned his professorship in 1979 to become an Anglican priest, is the winner of the 2002 Templeton Prize.

  • Magazine Article
    Spong Is Wrong
    March 1, 2002, pp. 15–16

    Bishop John Shelby Spong is well known for attacking almost every Christian doctrine he swore in his ordination vows to uphold, e.g. God as sovereign Creator, the Incarnation, Virginal Conception and

  • “Alpha”–A Misnomer!
    March 31, 2001

    Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. It is used in the Bible to denote ‘beginning,’ as it is in Revelation 1:8: ‘I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord….’

  • Magazine Article
    The Horse and the Tractor
    Sept. 1, 2000, pp. 53–54

    The only distinction between 'Theistic' and naturalistic evolution is the empty theological language attached in the former case-making no more difference than an invisible horse to a tractor.

  • Magazine Article
    Evolution of the Hutu-Tutsi Slayings
    March 1, 1999, pp. 47–48

    The historical background to the almost unimaginably brutal massacres in Rwanda is considerably complex, but was at least somewhat promulgated by theistic evolutionism.

  • A Testimony by ‘Joel Galvin’
    Jan. 1, 1999

    Faith shipwrecked by compromising ‘Christian’ colleges; restored by Answers in Genesis

  • Magazine Article
    Theistic Evolution: Future Shock?
    June 1, 1998, pp. 18–19

    If you're a theistic evolutionist, here's a problem for you to consider. It's called the future.

  • Feedback Article
    A Theistic Evolutionist’s Comments
    April 15, 1998 from Feedback

    I am a young Christian and biologist, currently studying zoology and microbiology, who has been closely watching the Creation\Evolution debate with ever widening eyes for the last few years now

  • Magazine Article
    Theistic Evolution: What Difference Does It Make?
    Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 48–49

    Theistic evolution is a serious departure from the historic Christian faith, representing a grave threat to the spiritual well-being of God’s people and the effectiveness of their mission.

  • Magazine Article
    From (Theistic) Evolution to Creation
    March 1, 1997, pp. 50–51

    When you walk into the university department of the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, the portrait on the wall is that of a figure well-known in creation science circles...

  • Magazine Article
    10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution
    Sept. 1, 1995, pp. 49–51

    In this system God is not the omnipotent Lord of all things, whose Word has to be taken seriously by all men, but He is integrated into the evolutionary philosophy.

  • Magazine Article
    Peer Pressure and Truth
    June 1, 1995, pp. 24–25

    It is a shame that Christians are divided on the issue of origins. Let me suggest a reason why they are.

  • Magazine Article
    Bryan on Theistic Evolution
    Dec. 1, 1994, pp. 45–46

    Former United States politician William Jennings Bryan speaks out about theistic evolution.

  • Magazine Article
    Evolution Incompatible with Christianity
    Sept. 1, 1993, pp. 22–23

    Evolution and Christianity are simply incompatible.

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