The Pros And Cons Of Theistic Evolution

As the years have past, advancements in engineering and science have improved people’s lives dramatically. The result of this has placed an emphasis on the thought that science can never be wrong and that we all should blindly accept what the majority of the scientific community says. This includes the theory of evolution. Sadly, “Christians” are becoming more and more accepting of this belief. Theistic evolution is rapidly becoming a widely accepted idea in Christian circles. It is even being taught in many seminaries now, but I believe it should not be accepted by the born again Child of God because first it contains many of the same holes and inconsistencies as atheistic evolution, but lastly it requires someone to make severe compromises to Gods Word in order to believe it. First, theistic evolution based on bad science and is very similar to atheistic evolution.
It is the belief that all living things evolved by natural processes from earlier and more simple forms of life. Theistic evolution posits a God who got the process going (by creating matter and/or first life) and/or has guided it. Naturalistic evolution believes the entire process is natural including the origin of the universe and first life by spontaneous generation.” Geisler, N. L. (1999). In Baker encyclopedia of Christian apologetics (p. 224)
In essence, this means the only difference between regular evolution and theistic evolution is that theistic evolution recognizes that there must be some kind of higher power. Though it might seem like a step in the right direction, this belief comes with a slew of the same problems that haunt the standard evolutionary