- Theistic Evolution Is Untenable Because The Concept Of Evolution Itself Undermines The Fall Of Man:
-"To believe in evolution is to deny a universal paradise before Adam, because evolution necessarily implies that before Adam there was struggle, cruelty and brutality, animals eating animals, and death. Is the world going to be restored to that? If you believe in evolution, you must deny a universal paradise before Adam (because you believe that there was death and struggle millions of years before Adam), and also at the end of time (because the Bible teaches the world will be restored to what it used to be). Thus, evolution not only strikes at the heart and the foundation, but at the home of Christianity as well. We all should be out there doing something about it. Many of us have been hoodwinked into thinking that evolution has to do with science and that you need to be a scientist to do anything to combat it. But evolution is only a belief system, and you do not need to be a scientist to combat that." (Ken Ham, “The Lie,“ p.77-78)
-"If you believe in the evolutionary theory, you are really saying that God never made man perfect, but is bringing him to perfection. Therefore there is no true sin. But the Bible teaching is that man was made perfect and that he fell from that perfection, with the result that this power, this canker, has entered human nature and is there as an evil force within." (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount,” volume 1, p.238)
Though I am an old earth creationist, I most certainly cannot approve of the theistic evolution framework. As for young earth creationism, I am not going to cast any criticisms upon those who do subscribe to this position.
