Except when you insist on rates of evolution millions of times greater than anything that has been observed in order to explain how the current diversity of species could have descended from the animals on the ark, and to explain how the genetic variation of species doesn't show a bottleneck on a Biblical timeline. ;)
So true.
Reminds me of the recent Sopranos episode where the preacher had Tony's attention until he said that the earth was formed 6000 years ago and that man and the dinosaurs co-existed. Christopher's response had me ROTFLMAO:
"So it must have been pretty tough for all those guys when the dinosaurs were chasing them down."
Anybody who denies the theory of evolution is not qualified to teach at any level.
The non-fixity of species has already been observed in real time. How can I disagree with it? Common descent has also been observed in the present day. So has change on a wide scale among populations, sometimes due to genetic variation and natural selection. How can I disagree with that?
No, [it is not a requirement of theistic evolutionists to reject the accuracy and authority of biblical texts] but you can't take Genesis literally and be an evolutionist of any stripe.
To begin with, you see from the above that I subscribe to the tenets of evolution to some degree. My only questions regard the limits within which evolution takes place. I also subscrbe to the literal accuracy of the biblical texts, including a creation that only took seven literal days. Due to my literal understanding of the biblical texts you say I cannot be an evolutionist of any stripe, but that plainly does not follow. I am a theistic evolutionist.