Why I Am A Thiest Evolutionist

When I became a Christian in 1987 I didn’t know that you had to believe in a literal interpretation of Genesis to be a Christian and so I became a Christian believing in evolution.

It could have been a matter of weeks before I was being given lots of nonsensical tracts refuting evolution including the waffle about Piltdown man, Nebraska man, the bone of an extinct pig, Neil Armstrong’s footprint being only an inch deep, carbon dating being inaccurate that everything was vegetarian before the fall, nothing died before the fall, the Earth is only 6000 years old, etc. etc.

After a while I became a creationist.

As somebody who had studied botany and understood the scientific method I don’t know how I became a creationist but I guess I just trusted the people around me.

After a while I came across Theist Evolutionists and thought they made more sense scientifically but I could not reconcile my theology to the theory of evolution.

The main stumbling block was the ‘through one man’ thing in Romans. They didn’t seem to have a reasonable explanation. This meant that for about six years I battled with the fact that if evolution wasn’t true everything I knew about botany wasn’t true either and the ‘through one man’ thing.

I had already concluded that the first chapter of Genesis was a poetic message that God is the source and the first course of all existence. I also had concluded that the talking snake was not literal. Interestingly I didn’t believe it was literal talking snake when I was five or six. As The kingdom belongs to such as a little child, that spoke a lot to me. But I still had a problem with the ‘one man’ stuff.

This went on for about five or six years until a couple of years ago.

I had to seek The Lord and reconcile the two myself and did so through Anselm’s Ontological Approach.

Which is that..

Every being in nature - every animal, every person, every idea- implies the existence - implies the existence of some being greater than itself ; thus ultimately every being points to the existence of a Supreme Being, whom we call God

If we rank the qualities of mankind from the lowest to the highest , this will point us to the nature of God since he is above the highest.

Therefore God is loving, merciful and compassionate because these are the highest qualities of mankind.

By the lowest qualities off mankind it is obvious that mankind has fallen.

As God is a loving God he would naturally want to save fallen man.

Therefore the incarnation occurred.
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This would mean that if there was a literal one man called Adam or Adam means the whole human race (The Hebrew Adam simply means ‘Man’) the incarnation would have still taken place. Because of sin we experience spiritual death and Christ rises us up from it.

Now I rejoice in the complexities of Gods glorious Universe. The one who made them lives in me.

Also, the final reason is because i think that Young Earth Creationism is insane.