Today´s reading:
OT: Genesis 32:13-20, Genesis 33, Genesis 34
NT: Matthew 11:7-30
Ps: Psalm 14
Pr: Proverbs 3:19-20
Today´s notable verse:
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)
The One Year Bible Blog notes:
Comments from you & Question of the Day - Based on my last question in the Proverbs section above, have you been keeping up with all of the news and issues of the day surrounding intelligent design / creationism / evolution? I have only kept up at a high level. Are there any websites or books or resources you can recommend to further study intelligent design & creationism? Can anyone offer up a good definition or distinction between intelligent design & creationism - if there is a difference? Do you think it is possible to believe in both intelligent design and evolution - if God's hand was guiding evolution - or no?
I'll have to find the time to write at length on this subject, as it is of interest to me. I think the whole ID-vs-evolution debate is based on bad premises. To answer your question, intelligent design (ID) is simply the alternative to evolution. (Here's my problem with the opposition to ID as scientific theory: if evolution is "sound" science, then it must be - one of the purported arguments against ID - falsifiable. So, if it's a falsifiable theory, then something else must be true. Evolution simply states that random chance produced life as we know it. The alternative to random chance is some non-random event/events. The theory that life came from non-random events is a perfectly valid definition of ID theory.) Creationism, on the other hand, introduces philosophical/moral/religious ideas on top of ID. ID theory itself does not discuss, per se, how or why or by whom or what. Using the term Creationism invokes these issues (in my opinion).
NOTE: The use of the term "evolution" here applies to macro-evolution - speciation - the theory of one species of live evolving through genetic mutuation into a distinct species. The theory of this form of evolution has never been observable nor reproducible: two other fundamental requirements for a theory being considered "sound" science. Micro-evolution, on the other hand - genetic mutation resulting in changes within a species - does happen. No one credibly argues against it.
Note also that evolution is not intended nor is it adequate for answering questions of origin. I think, to ask if evolution can be consistent with the Genesis creation story as a whole would be to invoke questions of origin, and therefore not really appropriate. However, I don't think that evolutionary theory is consistent with the Genesis story for the creation of man. Genesis states that man was a new and unique creation, from the dust of the earth.
I'll write more coherently, and more at length, on this subject in the future.
