Opus 2025-152: Time Out

 I’m thinking about Francis Collins, who lead the project that mapped human DNA, and the fact that he seems to be a genuine believer, and yet still clings to the chance element of evolution.  I find the two concepts incompatible.

He claims the evidence is there.  I don’t think so.

One of the key elements that says random selection cannot work is the time element.  There is not enough time even with an old earth theory for random selection to have developed life, let alone intelligence.  In fact, the only way that evolution could work is if it were guided by the hand of God.

Do I believe in evolution?  Not the way it’s defined or thought about.  Do I believe that God could have worked through a long slow process using the laws that He put in place to produce human beings?  Yes, I think He could have done it that way.  You would still need to work it in with the passage in Genesis chapter one that talks about us being created in the image of God.   You would still need to somehow deal with that word “created” and how that indicates God exercising His power.  It is not just the idea for making, but it is the idea of calling out of nothing.  But the concept of God working through His natural law does not disturb me at all.  That’s the way He does most of His miracles.  Many of them are more miracles of planning than miracles of power.

I look at how He works in the world we live in.  Oak trees don’t appear full grown over night.  Only weeds do that.  Children, made in the image of God, do not pop out of the womb quoting the 23rd Psalm.  I see no problem with God working in history the same way He works in my back yard.

I trust you will be surprised when you see me in the celestial choir in spite of my deviant views.

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