More thoughts on X~apologist Craig , it appears really that he is a "closet Evolutionist" but for the semantics...he will "come out" in time (not all do but some)
But not while this gives him a good living as "Champion of the Cause" ...lectures, debates , books and appearances. Not to worry , they/we all do it Dawkins too , its just human nature to wear our beliefs as as robes of identification & recognition .
You'll note that Lane Craig is himself a Progressive Creationist and though they reject evolution they do accept the mainstream geological and cosmological estimates for the age of the Earth, though they reject the evolution of plants/animals , that down thru all this immense time God stepped in to introduce new species as "miracles" of his powers along the way . This concept seems rather massaged & lacking the ability to see their own philosophy is just Evolution , couched in religious terms itself ?
(Guess everyone just wants to keep their day jobs with a game of semantics just like the Fed ? )
lol
Craig Lane & Modern progressive creationism
en.wikipedia.org
" the religious belief that God created new forms of life gradually, over a period of hundreds of millions of years. As a form of Old Earth creationism, it accepts mainstream geological and cosmological estimates for the age of the Earth, but posits that the new "kinds" of plants and animals that have appeared successively over the planet's history represent instances of God directly intervening to create those new types by means outside the realm of science. Progressive creationists generally reject macroevolution because they believe it to be biologically untenable and not supported by the fossil record, and they generally reject the concept of universal descent from a last universal ancestor. These individuals thus reject a great deal of the scientific consensus regarding the evidence for evolution.
* It should be noted that Lane Craig also has admitted leanings towards entertaining a "Theistic Evolution" too ( heaven help him with this ) as this theology does embrace Natural Selection . Seems to me in the end Craig will embrace Evolution but for now it would be detrimental to his reputation as a defender of the Ceationist view and his lecture book tours .
"Theistic evolution" (Craig's secret love, he just wont admit it , needs to sell books & stay on tour , think? )
Theistic evolution: or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists believe that there is a God, that God is the creator of the material universe and (by consequence) all life within, and that biological evolution is simply a natural process within that creation. Evolution, according to this view, is simply a tool that God employed to develop human life.
Theistic evolution is not a scientific theory, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to religious belief and interpretation. Theistic evolution supporters can be seen as one of the groups who reject the conflict thesis regarding the relationship between religion and science – that is, they hold that religious teachings about creation and scientific theories of evolution need not contradict. Proponents of this view are sometimes described as Christian Darwinists. [1] [2]
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