Because of efforts to synthesize Greek thought with early
Christianity, the Christian church from the beginning of the
fifth century to the seventeenth century taught a doctrine of
theistic evolution. After a brief return to a belief that
Genesis is simple history, Christians from the seventeenth to
the nineteenth centuries again wavered from the doctrine of
special creation by teaching extreme fixity in created kinds.
Close study of the Old Testament today brings out the point that
Genesis does teach a fixity of living kinds. However, the fixity
is not at the level of the individual, but at the level of the
kind. Thus new individuals are always of the same kind as their
parents. Wild Flowers: A Problem For William J. Tinkle, Ph.D.
According to the inclusive explanation of evolution by natural
selection, wild flowers developed by chance variation.
Evolutionists postulate that flowers came from changes in
leaves. A truly vivid imagination is required to visualize
floers of Dutchman's Breeches developing by cha