{"id":2063,"date":"2011-07-23T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T09:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T19:03:48","slug":"howard-van-til-the-theistic-evolutionist-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"Howard Van Till, the Theistic Evolutionist in Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skimming through his book: \"The Fourth Day\", I realized very quickly that this fellow is a theistic evolutionist, despite his denial of it at the last few chapter (he reasoned that admitting theistic evolutionism is like saying God is inferior as He has to \"choose\" a method that is autonomous from His own will). Semantic? I would say this is the same semantic the Molinists have gotten themselves trapped in without realizing it.<\/p>\n<p>It is disappointing, since Dr. Van Till was a professor from an esteemed school, the Calvin College. This shows that it is hard for a theocentric Christian to find allies in the field of science, specifically in the biology and the cosmos fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skimming through his book: \"The Fourth Day\", I realized very quickly that this fellow is a theistic evolutionist, despite his denial of it at the last few chapter (he reasoned that admitting theistic evolutionism is like saying God is inferior &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=2063\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15610,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/15610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}