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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

(This is a list of  Christian leaders and thinkers who all support the theory of evolution and are alive today. There are PLENTY more I can add, especially if we are to include those who are now passed, but this should be sufficient.

Of course, considering that Dean was incessantly whining that I could "only" name seven in a twenty second time-span [apparently, I'm supposed to be a walking Google search engine?], one wonders how many I'd have to name before certain people treat me with enough respect to take my claims seriously.)

William Lane Craig
Alvin Plantinga
Richard Swinburne
Peter Van Inwagen
N.T. Wright
Luke Timothy Johnson
John Dominic Crossan
John Lennox
Alister McGrath
Greg Boyd
Paul Eddy
Jerry Walls
Michael Brown
Dinish D'souza
Ravi Zacharias
Justin Welby
Rowan Williams
James D.G. Dunn
E.P. Sanders
Donald Miller
Kevin Miller
Brian McLaren
Rob Bell
Pope Francis
Pope Benedict XVI
Richard Baukham
Howard Van Till


4 comments:

  1. Thanks Adam. "Whining" is gratuitous. Let's all try hard to be respectful, to really listen to one another, and to avoid patterned conversational repetition.

    What I still wonder is: how many religious leaders in our region (not just theologians) can you add to that list?

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  2. I haven't personally asked I don't think any Christian leaders in the area that question. I know of only one Assistant Pastor who is a 6 day creationist, although I'm sure that there are many more. Typically, pretty much any non-Restorationist group is going to be okay (at the very least) with evolution. Any conservative Baptists, Church of Christ, Assembly of God, Pentecostal, etc. church (all Restorationist churches).

    FYI: the Mecca of Independent Fundamental Baptists is Murfreesboro (Sword of the Lord publishing and Franklin Road Baptist Church, although I will say that the church is one of the genuinely friendliest ones I've ever been to), and the Church of Christ denomination was started either here or not too far from here. We need to keep in mind that TWO fundamentalist groups are VERY strong in this region.

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    1. "Any conservative Baptists, Church of Christ, Assembly of God, Pentecostal, etc. church (all Restorationist churches)"

      ^^^I forgot to finish that sentence, my bad: "Any conservative Baptist, Church of Christ, Assembly of God, Pentecostal, etc. church (all Restorationist churches) is likely going to be the stereotypical anti-science Christian.

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  3. Oh, and as for non-theologian Christians (I forgot that point), I would say that there are a LOT of them I know personally who are NOT six day creationists. I can think of a dozen laypeople off the top of my head who hold to the theory of evolution, and am thinking up more and more names of people I know personally with like-minded views as I continue typing this out.

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