Rick Phillips has commented on the resignation of Bruce Waltke over his views on evolution and creation. His view is that acceptance of science over the Bible on even one point undermines the whole thing.
I assume that either he believes that there is a dome over the earth, or rejects the Bible altogether, because apparently he believes those are the only two consistent positions – believe it all, or reject it all. But of course, I’m sure he has found some convoluted way of both reconciling science and the Bible on some major points, and persuading himself that his opposition to evolutionary biology and his literalistic approach to Adam and Eve are not selective, not “picking and choosing.”
So I call upon Rick Phillips to publicly affirm the existence of the dome, and Ivette Maymi (the author of the tweet) to throw out all her cotton-wool blends. Or alternatively, you could both just acknowledge the complexities and selectivity involved in reading and applying the Bible today. And it would be great if you could also stop insulting and demeaning those who, in what seems to me to be their greater honesty and knowledge of the Bible than yours, acknowledge that the Bible tells us to do many things that we are persuaded we don’t need to do or even should not do, and as a result refuse to use the Bible as a source for sound bites.
I’m including below a cartoon I shared before which I think addresses this subject poignantly.
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