Engaging the Evolutionists

“One thing I noticed is that Dawkins seems to have mellowed his former distaste for evolutionary theists, recognising many evolutionists have religious convictions.” — Comcalere

God must have instituted evolution as an image of the very adaptive strategy by which even a spiritual organism vies successfully against spirits which discover and would exploit indefensible weaknesses in the belief system that sustains it.

Christians cannot abide the idea of ‘accident’ inherent in evolutionary theory, but they do not consider that apparent ‘accidents’ on one side of the mirror are reflections cast by spirits from the other side – that ultimately there are no ‘accidents’ if both tracks of a two-track reality are taken into account.

Christians erringly oppose the proposition that the Bible might not afford them an accurate history of the natural world – that it might rather constitute only a massive spiritual allegory that owes neither historicity to the historian nor scientificity to the scientist, but only spiritual ‘truth’ – faithful images of the spirits – to the spiritual. – Tertius

I think adaptation rather than evolution (”life finds a way”). – Maegden

Well, adaptation is the name of the evolutionary game. The ’spontaneous mutation’ by means of which a species investigates opportunities to perpetuate itself is an image of the theological speculation by means of which a faith proposes to justify its own perpetuation. – Tertius

I think adaptation was a word chosen by the evolutionary game. – Maegden

You would seem to cherish enmity against the idea that ‘evolution’ exists and proceeds. I do not subscribe to a simple evolutionist’s presumption upon ‘accident’, however. ‘Accident’ is the facade of what is no accident in its depth. – Tertius

I am not sure if spontaneous mutation would apply. It would take a great deal of time for animals and even vegetation to adapt to changes so that they and it could survive. – Maegden

One mutant born in a night might survive the morrow’s crisis by virtue of some advantage inherent in its novel form. – Tertius

By mutant do you mean born with birth defects? – Maegden

A fresh advantage might appear to be a defect at first. Our faith is counted as defective by members in good standing of the primal Christian establishment. But ours will endure what is coming, something that promises to overwhelm primality like a flood. – Tertius

I wonder about dinosaurs… would this be something in the same line of the angels mating with humans? and producing giants? not that dinos came from that union, I’m just sayin… maybe something like that happened in the animal world too (?). – Maegden