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Proponents of Theistic Evolution believe that God created the evolutionary process. Theistic evolutionists (TEists) reject special creation of nature and its inhabitants and mankind as declared in Genesis chapters one and two. TEists accept the Theory of Evolution as representing reality in all aspects, including human evolution from an ape ancestor.

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-===Theistic Evolution===
+Proponents of '''Theistic Evolution''' believe that God created the evolutionary process. Theistic evolutionists (TEists) reject special creation of nature and its inhabitants and mankind as declared in Genesis chapters one and two. TEists accept the Theory of Evolution as representing reality in all aspects, including human evolution from an ape ancestor.
-''A critical view of Darwinists in sheeps clothing ''
-*Proponents of Theistic Evolutionism believe that God created the evolutionary process. Theistic evolutionists (TEists) reject special creation of nature and its inhabitants and mankind as declared in Genesis chapters one and two. TEists accept the Theory of Evolution as representing reality in all aspects (includes human evolution from an ape ancestor) except they credit God with biological First Cause, unlike atheist evolutionists who assert the same was accomplished by some unknown material or natural phenomenon.
-There are many insurmountable problems and facts which invalidate and illegitimize this view.
-'''Theism''' is the belief that a supernatural Being created the universe, the Earth and life as we know it; and said Being is knowable intruding into the affairs of mankind. This view is not to be confused with '''Deism''' which believes the same except the deity is unknowable and does not intrude into the affairs of mankind. '''Biblical Theism''' is not defined in the Bible - it is demonstrated in the lives of Old Testament patriarchs. Whatever God is He has revealed Himself as a Person who can be related to; hence the patriarchs and their relationship with God. The New Testament says God is embraced through Jesus the Christ; hence the Apostles and their relationship with Him.
-'''Evolution''' or Darwinism or the Theory of Evolution is an interpretation of scientific evidence attempting to explain how nature may have created itself without any assistance from a supernatural Being (1). We know Charles Darwin was a Creationist and a Christian prior to 1836. But after this date Darwin, in the ensuing two years, forsook the Bible, God and Christianity and became an apostate, materialist and atheist. He retained a deist and quasi theist shell to conduct his life under because he lived in pro-Christian nineteenth-century Victorian England, and because his wife and friends were devout Christians whom he had no desire to offend.
-In the nineteenth-century, the scientific establishment was wholly controlled by Natural Theology or Creationism. Creationists, contrary to what anyone might think, rarely agreed on anything, except reality was the product of the power and mind of the Genesis Creator. The appearance of design and organized intricate complexity seen in nature was the work of invisible Designer. These were the prevailing presuppositions and common denominator views of Science in Victorian England; and this was the context in which Charles Darwin proposed his theory of common ancestry by natural selection or processes.
-Charles Darwin rejected God as Creator and ''initiator'' of biological reality; and he rejected God as the source of the appearance of design seen in nature. Instead, Darwin proposed that a naturally occurring phenomenon ''(natural selection)'' was responsible for producing the appearance of design seen in nature.
-Harvard Professor Ernst Mayr
-"There is indeed '''one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common,''' and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched. When Hull claimed that “the Darwinians did not totally agree with each other, even over essentials”, he overlooked one essential on which all these Darwinians agreed. Nothing was more essential for them than to decide whether '''evolution is''' a natural phenomenon or something controlled by God. The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and '''not the work of God''' was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin’s theories" (2).
-The objective claim of evolutionary theory says God is not responsible for the production of nature; that this is the one common denominator of agreement that ''all true original Darwinians held in common.'' Darwin and all evolutionists sought to dethrone the one common denominator of agreement that the Creationist scientific establishment held (special creation; design indicates invisible Designer); and within fifteen years of the publication of ''Origin of Species'' (1859) Darwin's theory deconverted the theist presuppositions of Creationist biology. The main structure of Darwin's theory stands firm today and atheist presuppositions rule biology.
-Therefore, the term '''Theistic Evolutionism''' is an oxymoron: a sourceless and subjective viewpoint.
-The source for theism (= Bible) says God did not create by natural evolution and common ancestry (just the opposite); and the reason for being and central point of Evolution says God did not create nature and the appearance of design seen therein. The union of theism and evolution is the fusion of antithetic beliefs. Theistic evolution has no source to justify its existence and is thus entirely subjective.
-Logically, real Christians accept the Biblical version of origins and not the version which all atheists rabidly support. Logically, real Christians do not agree with Atheists concerning origins. Logically, TEists are not real believers: the Pharisees in the New Testament ''thought'' they were serving God but according to Jesus they were of their father the devil (John 8:44). Imagine that; serving Satan but thinking that you are serving God? Judas was an Apostle and he betrayed Christ to His face with a kiss. We have an explanation as to why TEists think they are Christians. According to the Bible "believers" have always betrayed God to His face. The typology of the Bible corresponds to TEists who have betrayed God and the Bible and have bowed down to the atheist creation myth for the praise and approval of the world.
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-'''References'''
-. Johnson, Phillip E. ''Defeating Darwinism'' (1997:15,16)
-. Mayr, Ernst ''One Long Argument'' (1991:99; boldfacing mine - R.M.).

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