Evolutionary Cosmologies: Religious Endeavor to become like God

“the article does a bad job of proving that science is wrong, but the Bible is right. Once again, we live in a fallen world.”

Spirited: Man is captive to his senses, and given that he is fallen, it logically follows that science is fallible, the theory trumpeted today as the latest and greatest is replaced by tomorrow’s latest and greatest. That said, the article is not trying to prove observable science wrong but rather pointing out that metaphysical speculations posing as science are not observable science.

Moreover, evolutionary dynamics properly belong to the category of metaphysics, particularly to esotericism since evolution is an unseen energy or power endowed by men with the power of choice (natural selection) and change that according to evolutionary atheists is mindless.

Evolutionary theists and progressive creationists attempt to get around the awkwardness of the atheist position with claims of Gods’ involvement. This stance puts them in league with Babylonian Cabbalists who wrote of their power to either kill God so as to seize control of His powers or to allow Him to exist in furtherance of some other agenda.

“Could this article not be applied to Creation as well?”

Spirited: Again, man is a prisoner of his senses. This means that the only knowledge we can have of God—and creation— must come from Him. Now either we choose to believe that He really did communicate with Abraham, Moses and OT prophets and NT Apostles or we choose not to believe and fall into nihilism-—meaninglessness, hopelessness and despair.

The choice is yours to make.

Distinctions are in order with regard to your blanket-statement: "The big bang is entirely acceptable to the church's dogma." The big bang is acceptable to progressive-minded "Christians" but not to the faithful, orthodox Christians within the whole body of the church, meaning Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Protestant.

Years ago, long-time Vatican observer Malachi Martin (1921-1999) described a situation in which the Curia is divided between 'progressive,' that is,evolutionary pantheists, and 'traditionalists;' between adherents of evolutionary conceptions such as Teilhard de Chardin's Hermetic, quasi-Hindu idea, abortion, women and 'gay' priests, and openness to non-Christian nature religions and philosophies and those who oppose such an agenda. According to Martin, 'progressives' hold all the important positions of power, and so are able to bring about a major revolution that if unchecked will constitute,

"....one of the most spectacular expressions of apostasy in the modern era, dressed up in all the traditional robes and much of the terminology of Christianity but denying its essence." (ibid, Jesus and the Den of Thieves, SCP Journal, Jones, p. 17)

A great example of a ministry consisting of faithful, orthodox Catholics is the Catholic Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation: http://www.kolbecenter.org/articles/

Evolution has become a scientific theory, having no philosophic or religious significance.

That some look to make something more of the term than what it has come to mean is no reason why the rest of us should follow suit and fall into the rabbit hole right along with the malicious. Linda Kimball does right in pointing out the fallacies of the misuse ~ abuse of the word.

“Eventually the word evolution became preferred, especially by empirical realists and materialists like Karl Marx because it had a more ‘scientific’ allure”

Exactly.

Thanks for the BEEP!

‘I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.’

Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom, But Not of Christ (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1980), pp. 59

“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future.”

I don’t pretend to know Science well enough to pass on the validity of the Theory of Evolution as a scientific theory.

Any proposition that proposes Evolution to be anything more than a theory of science must be viewed with extreme skepticism.

IMHO.

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