Dear Christis,

I feel compelled to write to you concerning Matthew Moxon’s article on Theistic Evolution, which had potential to be interesting and informative, but which sadly fell short of the mark. This was because the views of Dr. Phillip C. Johnson, interesting as they are, were not counterbalanced by any rational scientific argument on the side of the evolutionary theory.

While I understand that the evolutionary theory poses a great problem for ‘true Christians’, it cannot be denied that there is overwhelming evidence that the Creationalist view that the Bible advocates is wrong. Those who composed the Bible were, obviously, unaware of evolution, thus another explanation had to be contrived for the occurrence of the vast diversity of species upon our planet. This creation theory was blindly accepted for thousands of years. Christians must now realise that they can no longer cling on irrational, circular arguments such as: It must be true; it’s in the Bible. If it wasn’t true, then Christ, God and the apostles have lied to us. And God can’t lie; is says so in the Bible

this would render the apostles, Christ and God liars; something that is impossible. (Hebrews 6:18)

It is one thing to blindly accept that there is a God, (another argument altogether), but Christians make a mockery of themselves by refusing to acknowledge proven scientific fact. Matthew Moxon writes:

Evolution is a theory and not a fact … still today there is no hard proof for evolution.

This is utter rubbish. If Matthew had bothered to carry out research of his own instead of merely paraphrasing Dr. Phillip C. Johnson, he would have realised that not only is there almost unanimous support for the evolutionary theory in the Scientific world, but there is also irrefutable evidence for evolution.

If Christians wish to be taken seriously in the debate regarding Creation versus Evolution, they cannot rely on arguments such as

Evolution is unbiblical and therefore must be wrong.

Such arguments do not support their argument; they merely reinforce the view of people such as myself that Christians are merely individuals too blinkered and brainwashed to question what they are told, and merely blindly accepting what the Bible would have them believe to be the facts.

If Matthew does have access to scientific evidence for creation, then let’s see it. I’ll produce my evidence to the contrary, and then we can have a reasoned and rational debate based on facts, not fiction.

Articles such as the one published in Issue 34 of Christis have no place in such a debate. I am perfectly prepared to listen to a rational scientific argument for creation; if there is one. The Theistic Evolutionary theory is an attempt by thinking Christians to reconcile undeniable facts confirming the evidence of evolution with an uncompromising Christian theory. Matthew casts it aside merely on the basis of blind acceptance of an article written by Dr. Phillip C. Johnson. He clearly had not examined the other side of the argument. I’m afraid this does brand him as one of the uneducated, irrational and unscientific he mentioned in the first paragraph of his one-sided and ill-researched article.

I await your reply with interest;

Jo Dunn