vol. 40, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: THEISTIC EVOLUTION: DEISM REVISITED? MICHAEL A. HARBIN -JETS 40/4 (December 1997) 639–651

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THEISTIC EVOLUTION: DEISM REVISITED?
MICHAEL A. HARBIN
JETS 40/4 (December 1997) 639–651

Excerpt:
The current creation-evolution debate is much more complex than a mere
religion-science issue, although it is often simplified into an either-or conflict
between right-wing Christian fundamentalists and science.1 This simplifi-
cation probably occurs because the classic evolutionist position is both naturalistic
and atheistic. It is naturalistic because it argues that the entire universe
is a product of natural processes that are currently being observed
through science and that may be extrapolated back for an extremely long period of time.
It is atheistic because a universe of natural causes seems to lead logically into a position
that there is no God. The antithesis of this position is creationism, normally
formulated in terms of a literal understanding of the first two chapters of
Genesis and usually associated with what is called a young earth. --from the first page of the article