Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:58:21 PM
‘[Collins] also hopes to help fundamentalist scientists see the error of their ways.” –Kathleen Parker
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2009/05/10/evolving_faith
Ms. Parker, by fundamentalist do you mean Bible believers? We thank you for the proffered help, but is it the Bible believer who is in need of help or the unbeliever?
Jesus prayed to His Father as He faced the cross, “Sanctify them in Your Truth, Thy word is Truth”. Could it be that our sanctification depends on believing Christ’s testimony regarding Genesis? For example…
“From the beginning, He made them male and female” and again, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it shall be at the coming of the Son of Man”.
Mr. Collins may be a geneticist and we give him credit for that, but he becomes a vain philosopher when he says common genes imply common descent.
The Bible gives us a framework for science. Collins denies that common design testifies of a common designer. No doubt the DNA sequence that codes an arm or a leg will be similar between a man and an ape. But men are more than DNA sequences. It is written that all men are made in the ‘image of God’. How does that code in DNA?
The strongest argument against the attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable is based on Biblical Theology. What does the Bible say about sin and death? Macro-evolution depends on death being the natural order; the Bible testifies that death is the result of Adam’s sin.
Accommodation to macro evolution undermines the reality of sin and its curse of death and thereby undermines the Gospel message that Christ came to put to death the curse of death. Having become an atonement for sin in the place of sinners, He redeemed men from their captivity to sin. What fellowship has light with darkness?