NEW BOOK BY EVANGELICAL PUBLISHER SAYS EVOLUTION WELL SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE

NEW BOOK BY EVANGELICAL PUBLISHER SAYS EVOLUTION WELL SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE

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March 13, 1996 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist News Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Eerdmans Publishing Company has printed The Fire in the Equations--Science, Religion and the Search for God, a book which claims that evolution is well supported by evidence. The author, Kitty Ferguson, denies the perfect inspiration of Scripture and claims to be a skeptic. Consider some excerpts:

"The theory of evolution is a well-established theory, not speculative and on the fringe of science ... The consensus of science today is that the theory of evolution is a powerful theory indeed, extremely well supported by evidence" (Kitty Ferguson, The Fire in the Equations--Science, Religion and Search for God, p. 157).

"Darwin demolished the literal interpretation of the biblical Creation story and undermined the literal interpretation of the biblical Creation story, one of the most eloquent arguments for the existence of God, that the world was a place perfectly designed for the survival and sustenance of human beings" (p 2).

"The ages of the universe is presently estimated at between ten and twenty billion years" (p. 287, n. 5).

"At the risk of appearing sacrilegious, let us put you in the position of God, and ask the question: How will you, God, use your wonderful invention--evolution--to produce a being like me? ... We have the first flicker of life in the primordial soup. How will you start with that and end with this woman and others like her who will be so confoundedly curious about whether you exist" (pp. 159-160).

"The study of evolution tells us that the natural environment on earth was not necessarily designed with us humans in mind. All of which certainly takes us down a notch!" (p. 163).

"At the beginning of this book, I said that the only thing of which I can be certain is my own existence. (Even that is an assumption, but one I chose to make.) Why all this fuss then about humans thinking they know the answers or what the answers ought to be? Who else could possibly decide what is truth? I am, not by claim, but by default, my own ultimate authority on everything else.

"How do we know whether to trust Mary Magdalene, St. Paul, Isaiah, King David, or Moses? Adding to our problem: How do we know that the report of their experiences as we find them in our Bibles is anything like the report we would have heard had we met them in person? The Bible as it comes to us has been pieced together after the fact by editors who presumably had their personal biases" (p. 260).

"How do we know when biblical writers intended to have their words interpreted literally and figuratively, when they were speaking in parables and when not?" (p. 261).

"The question how far we can accept the Bible as accurate historical evidence continues to be debated by responsible scholars, as well as by ideologues of both extremes, but very little gets settled" (p. 261).

The O Timothy editor is one of the "ideologues" who does not believe biblical inspiration needs to be debated. It needs to be accepted. If the Bible is not interpreted literally, it cannot be reliably interpreted at all. To refuse to take the Bible literally leaves every man with his own interpretation. If the Bible does not mean what it says, who is to say what it means?

Ferguson has no business claiming to be a Christian, and no Christian publisher has any business printing her destructive, unbelieving nonsense. This is a warning that publishers cannot be trusted today, regardless of what they claim to be. It was not too long ago that Eerdmans was considered to be conservative and safe.

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