I believe the new "theistic evolution" is just the enemy's way of introducing evolution into Christian theology and make it sound good. It is desensitizing our children the same way violent games are desensitzing them to violence.
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What rock have you been hiding under? Theistic evolution is by no means new. I've known about it for at least 15 years, and it wasn't new then either, I was just becoming old enough to be aware of it.
Your games argument is specious too. It's only video games doing this, and they're designed to do that too, right? It's not the programs they watch on TV, the movies they see, or hell, more likely the newspapers and TV news reporting on real life violent acts?
Anyway, theistic evolution is for people who can't give up their belief in God (or let that part of how the world came to its current state not be governed by him) but also can't just wish away the mountains of evidence like you YECers do. If you want to believe it's a tool of Satan, so be it. . . at least some Christians are -trying- to be honest.
Theistic evolution, or at least the idea that "evolution" is God's method of creation, is as old as evolution itself. Alfred Russell Wallace believed that the process of evolution had been "designed" to bring about ever more complex life, culminating in us (an early version of the anthropic 'fine tuning' argument so beloved by creationists), and Jesuit Pierre Teilhard described evolution as the process God used to bring about Man as early as the 1920s.
It is desensitizing our children the same way violent games are desensitzing them to violence.
Actually I do agree that video games desensitize people to violent actions in a way that simply viewing or reading does NOT. (Training soldiers to fire at moving targets as compared to fixed targets has a measurable desensitization as far as that goes.) But as for READING - if you're going to worry about reading something desensitizing kids to violence, by all means, keep them away from a bible or koran!
"I believe the new "theistic evolution"..."
Did I miss a memo? Is this like the "new math" which is at least 45 years old, or "new Coke" which is just another failed Marketing scheme... kind of like, "theistic evolution"?
"...is just the enemy's way of introducing evolution into Christian theology and make it sound good."
"Enemy?" Are we at war? So much for "Love thy neighbor", and "Turn the other cheek".
"It is desensitizing our children the same way violent games are desensitzing them to violence."
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Where were you when they were getting their heads filled with unsubstantiated religious birdseed? Oh right....
[I believe the new "theistic evolution" is just the enemy's way of introducing evolution into Christian theology and make it sound good.]
The idea is hardly new, and IIRC it was conceived by theists to bring their beliefs in line with Darwin's work.
[It is desensitizing our children the same way violent games are desensitzing them to violence.]
Yet you're the one referring to us as "the enemy".
As for video game violence...it's fictional, and nobody has ever claimed it to be otherwise. Can the same be said for teaching children about the violence in the Bible?
anevilmeme is right. The idea of theistic evolution is as old as evolutionary theory itself, because Darwin himself accepted it.
As for:
So...your God is all powerful, but cannot possibly have guided evolution to this point, eh?
Oh, and as for violence. Read the selfsame bible you foist on your kids, and take a sharpie. Black out all the bits you guys are so adamant kids be protected from (Let's just go with sex and violence) and see just how much remains.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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