NEW SERIES: "QUESTION OF THE WEEK BY DR. WLLIAM LANE CRAIG"

Today we will be starting a new series called "Question of the Week" by Dr William Lane Craig. We will be posting questions that people send to Dr. Craig on his website reasonablefaith.org.

Please check out his website for more that 250 previous questions and answers.

Here's this weeks question:


Dear Dr.Craig

I want to start off by thanking you for what you’ve done for Christianity and for Jesus both in your written work and all through out your career.

However I do still have a two Questions regarding the nature of evolution and God’s role to play.

Q1) Stephen Meyer who is an American scholar, philosopher of biology and advocate for intelligent design says, “Evolution is a purposeless undirected process no one not even God can direct an undirected process or give purpose to a purposeless process.” He also has called theistic evolution is Oxymoron. And yet he is not alone amoung many biologists theres a trend to think like this in the United States. A 2009 poll by Pew Research Center found that “87%” of scientists say evolution is due to natural processes, such as natural selection genetic drift and random mutation. And so does that really bother your theism?

Q2) If you do accept evolution at what point did humans become human?
Did God sort of intervene in this point of history were he decided this creature is speacial? Because in evolution a species is always the same as its parent there is no one time in the history of any species where you can say “thats a new species.” why did God favour this one creaure As opposed to the very similar
Homo sapiens heidelbergensis,
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis,
Homo floresiensis,
Homo habilis,
Homo georgicus,
Homo erectus,
Homo ergaster,
Homo antecessor etc.
Many of these displayed human like behaviour and may have asked the ‘why’ question also.
So does that bother your theism either?

Andrew
United Kingdom

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