Christianity acording to Mohler
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August 8, 2005
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Mohler in Time Magazine:
Creationism and Evolution are Incompatible
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — You can believe the Christian truth claims about creation and you can believe Darwinian evolution, but you cannot logically believe both. That is the conclusion expressed by R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in the August 15 issue of Time Magazine. Mohler is one of four scholars featured in a forum addressing the question “Can You Believe in God and Evolution?” The article is part of the magazine’s cover story “Evolution Wars” on the controversy over Intelligent Design.
In the article, Mohler says the belief in both Divine creation and evolution is inconsistent.
“Given the human tendency toward inconsistency, there are people who will say they hold both positions,” said Mohler. “But you cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.”
Mohler goes on to say that he is a “young-Earth creationist” and that the most natural reading of the Bible points to a six-day creation. He points out that even the most ardent academic defenders of evolution are moving from any claim that evolution was God’s means of bringing life into being.
“More of them are saying that a truly informed belief in evolution entails a stance that the material world is all there is and that the natural must be explained in purely natural terms. They're saying that anyone who truly feels this way must exclude God from the story. I think their self-analysis is correct. I just couldn't disagree more with their premise.”
The August 15 edition of Time is currently on newsstands and also available on the web at www.time.com.
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R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship seminary of the 16-million member Southern Baptist Convention. He hosts a daily national radio program and writes a daily commentary available at www.albertmohler.com.
LUTHER BUTLER'S THOUGHTS
How quickly Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has evolved from a seminary geared to reach the educated population to a teaching place to reach morons. When I received my degree in the '50s from Southern, some of the professors were making a stab at reconciling scientific thought and theological education. Dr. Mohler seems reconciled in tearing down any bridge that was established. Is Mohler saying no person who believes in evolution theories can also be a Christian? I must say that this president has made me ashamed of saying I have a degree from Southern. The theory of evolution has unanswered questions, but so does creationism with its idiotic conclusions like the people at the Creationist Museum at Glen Rose, Texas have raised. When these pseudo-scientist have to fake evidence that humans and prehistoric animal roamed the Paluxy River together, what is this world coming to? Perhaps the genius Mohler, who might have taken a course or two in one of the earth scientist courses, should explain his theory on how the world was created. Certainly God had a hand in it, but I doubt if He did it in six days instead of billions of years. I have some friends who believe in the theory of evolution who have a greater understanding of what Christ taught than does the whole faculty of SBTS. Luther Butler
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