[Southflanknorthpawsis]

"The Christian should also recognize that evolution is bad Scripture. Belief in long-age evolution requires twisting of Scriptural references in Genesis 1, Exodus 20:11, Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:20, Romans 8:20-22, Colossians 1:15-20, Hebrews 11:3, II Peter 3:3-6, etc.

Because it doesn't match with Scripture, evolution is bad theology. If evolution is true, then death preceded sin and cannot be its penalty, and therefore Christ's death did not pay that penalty. One's view of God is distorted when viewed through evolutionary glasses. The concept of billions of years of evolutionary meandering and extinction is inconsistent with God's omnipotence, omniscience, purposiveness, loving nature, and even His grace."

John D. Morris, Ph.D.

[ZULU]

Evolution is not theology. Its science.

"If evolution is true, then death preceded sin "

???????

"One's view of God is distorted when viewed through evolutionary glasses."

Hardly. God made the rules and Evolutionary rules like chemical and physical rules are the product of God.

"The concept of billions of years of evolutionary meandering and extinction is inconsistent with God's omnipotence, omniscience, purposiveness, loving nature, and even His grace"

This doesn't make sense. #1 the billions of years of evolutionary meandering and extinction DID occur - its a fact. The fact that it occurred has nothing to do with those items Dr. Morris, whoever he is, enumerated concerning God.

[whattajoke]

John D. Morris, Ph.D., is the one with the problem. why he insists that evolution and/or geology has anything in the world to do with his particular theology is beyond me.

[Modernman]

Because it doesn't match with Scripture, evolution is bad theology.

That statement, in a nutshell, is why I could never be a fundamentalist. If reality does not conform to a literal reading of the Bible, then I have to conclude that literal reading of the Bible is wrong. No rational way around it.

[VRWC_minion]

If evolution is true, then death preceded sin and cannot be its penalty, and therefore Christ's death did not pay that penalty.

Jesus died for man's sins, not my pet turtle. The question is when did he create man.