From You Might be a Theistic Evolutionist
In the spirit of, "You might be a redneck." (If your family tree doesn’t fork)
You might be a Theistic Evolutionist (TE) if:
If you believe that God can do the selecting and, at the same time, nature can do the selecting, you might be a TE.
If you believe that evolutionary process can be both conscious and intentional and unconscious and unintentional, you might be a TE.
If you believe that a process can be both guided and unguided, you may be a TE.
If you believe that design can produce evolution and that evolution can produce design, you might be a TE.
If you believe that contingency is objective when doing your science and subjective when doing your theology, you might be a TE.
If you believe that a purposeful, mindful creator would use a purposeless, mindless process, you might be a TE.
If you believe that any given plan can provide for many possible outcomes and only one possible outcome, you might be a TE.
If you use the language of teleology while arguing on behalf of non-teleology, you might be a TE.
If you think God revealed himself in Scripture and hid himself in nature, you might be a TE.
If you unjustly accuse ID scientists of having religious motives, while, ironically, falling back on the theological objection of "bad design," you might be a TE.
If you insist that there is "no conflict between religion and science," while embracing methodological naturalism, which depends on a conflict between religion and science, you might be a TE.
If you believe that evolution, which cannot be seen, is empirically detectable, while intelligent design, which can be seen, is empirically undetectable, you might be a TE.
If, when asked how an empirically based design inference could possibly be a faith based presupposition, you answer, "because Judge Jones said so," you might be a TE.
If you appeal to Mr. Design, St.Thomas Aquinas, to argue against intelligent design, you might be a TE.
If you believe that a proposition can be true and false at the same time and under the same formal circumstances, you might be a TE.
If your atheist friends insist that you are a "devout" Christian, you might be a TE.
If you deny that these formulations are fair, or if you claim to have no idea what I am talking about, you are definitely a TE.
Note: lol this article is funny about TE's. I am friends with some.
They are great people like Francis Collins and Alister McGrath and
others like HonestThiest on youtube but I am still a strong propnent
of ID (Intelligent Design)
Hope someone out their enjoy's this ;)
-Rob
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