RE: Islam & Evolution, were we wrong ?
January 29, 2013 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 2:46 pm by Confused Ape.)
Theistic Evolution
People with this world view regard evolution as being the way God did it so they accept everything that science has to say on the subject.
As I'm an atheist I don't accept Theistic Evolution myself but I don't see this belief as being any stranger than
EriwnSchrödinger having
Quote: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.
People with this world view regard evolution as being the way God did it so they accept everything that science has to say on the subject.
As I'm an atheist I don't accept Theistic Evolution myself but I don't see this belief as being any stranger than
EriwnSchrödinger having
Quote:a lifelong interest in the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, which influenced his speculations at the close of What is Life? about the possibility that individual consciousness is only a manifestation of a unitary consciousness pervading the universe.



