Lamoureaux's Theory Of Evolution

Lamoureaux, who believed that you could be a Christian and still believe in evolutionary theory, wrote the book I love Jesus and Accept Evolution. Evolution is the theory that animals evolved into different species over time. A lot of times people who believe in evolution are not Christians, but there are some Christians who do believe that you can be a Christian and still believe in evolution. This is a controversy because some people believe that if you are a Christian, you cannot believe in evolution. I however am a Christian, and from reading his book and learning more about evolution, I agree with Lamoureaux and believe that you can not only be a Christian, but also be a Christen who accepts the theory of evolution
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The first two types are teleological evolution and dysteleological evolution. When he explains these two types of evolution, he states that teleological evolution is a natural process that was planned and has a purpose, and that dysteleological evolution is a world view of evolution with the belief that evolution shows that there is no purpose or plan in creation. He also states that he believes that evolutionary creation is proof that there is a God that created the universe, and that he created it with a perfect design that happens to have reflected the process of evolution. He also uses five categories of origin to explain his position. The positions are young earth, progressive creation, evolutionary creation, deistic evolution and dysteleological evolution. He believes that even though these are the five categories of origin, we should be open-minded and continue to become more knowledgeable about these five categories, and learn what the similarities and differences of them are. He talks about how many people believe that origins are an evolution verses creation debate but he believes this doesn’t have to be the case. He states some people can choose to be an evolutionist who rejects God or a creationist who believes the world was created by God in six days with twenty four hours in each day, however that the creation verses evolution debate should be looked at in a more out of the box way. I believe that the …show more content…
I think that his beliefs are very interesting and that they help me understand better what it means to be a Christian who believes in evolution. I think that he is right, that we need to think outside the box and not put boundaries on God. I think that if we look outside the box, that we can see that God could create the evolutionary process, and that he can create us through evolution and gave us purpose and meaning. Just because we were not created in six twenty-four hour days, does not mean we were created with less purpose or meaning, or less in the image of God. One of the things he said in the final chapter was that he “has learned to love Jesus and accept evolution.” And this is what I have come to accept as well. I don’t think God wants us to take the science of the Bible literally, and I don’t think that God wants us to ignore the scientific evidence that we see around