President George Bush and Evolution

A Response to "Bush talks of belief in God, evolution" (From the AP)

It would seem that after eight years of public office as president, that George W. Bush would learn to be more poise in interviews. This is the least of my concern relating to his befuzzled answers in Monday night’s ABC Nightline interview.

Asked about creation and evolution, Bush said: "I think you can have both. I think evolution can — you're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president. But it's, I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don't think it's incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution." . . . "I happen to believe that evolution doesn't fully explain the mystery of life."

Can we have creation and evolution together? To a theistic evolutionist the answer is yes. To those who follow Intelligent Design the question needs to be clarified. If Darwinian Evolution and creation exist together the answer is no. It may be surprising to some that ID and theistic evolution are similar in that a god or gods got involved in the process of forming life. The ‘how part’ is what is debatable.

So it would appear that President Bush is aligned with the theistic evolution camp. Many theistic evolutionist such as Pope Benedict would maintain that theistic evolution is creation. Atheistic evolutionists on the other hand would denounce any role of a supernatural being in the existence of life. While theistic evolution proponents have no problem with evolution being taught in schools, the real philosophy is Humanism is taught. Everything came into existence by chance. This is the very crux of evolution. There can be no designer in evolution whatsoever. Theistic evolution followers cannot understand this. Their view of evolution is for the most part expelled just as ID has been expelled from public schools.

I would maintain that you cannot have evolution alongside with a biblical understanding of Creation. For thousands of years Jews and Christians believed in special immediate creation. If Darwinian evolution were true then God lied to millions of people over thousands of years. Genesis could have been easily worded to give the impression of slow gradual processes created life from a common ancestor over eons of times. This common ancestor came from a rock, to goo to you. Not a chance!!!

George Bush has paid too much attention to the cartoons of him looking like a monkey.