Editing Theistic evolution (section)

=== Alternative terms ===
Others see "evolutionary creation"<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://sites.ualberta.ca/~dlamoure/evolutionary_creation.pdf|title=Evolutionary Creation: Moving Beyond the Evolution vs Creation Debate|first = Denis O.|last = Lamoureux|via=ualberta.ca|journal =Christian Higher Education|volume= 9|pages=28–48|doi = 10.1080/15363750903018231|s2cid=17953449}}</ref> (EC, also referred to by some observers as "evolutionary creationism") as the belief that God, as Creator, uses evolution to bring about his plan. [[Eugenie Scott]] states in ''Evolution Vs. Creationism'' that it is a type of evolution rather than creationism, despite its name. "From a scientific point of view, evolutionary creationism is hardly distinguishable from Theistic Evolution ... [the differences] lie not in science but in theology."<ref name="Scott 2009 p. 69">{{cite book | last=Scott | first=E.C. | title=Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction | publisher=University of California Press | series=ISSR library | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-520-26187-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FAAlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 | language=it | access-date=2 August 2022 | page=69}}</ref> Those who hold to evolutionary creationism argue that God is involved to a greater extent than the theistic evolutionist believes.<ref name="Scott2018">{{cite web |author=Eugenie Scott |author-link=Eugenie Scott |date=13 February 2018 |title=The Creation/Evolution Continuum |url=https://ncse.com/library-resource/creationevolution-continuum |access-date=3 May 2019 |website=[[National Center for Science Education|NCSE]]}}</ref>

Canadian biologist [[Denis Lamoureux]] published a 2003 article and a 2008 theological book, both aimed at Christians who do not believe in evolution (including young Earth creationists), and at those looking to reconcile their Christian faith with evolutionary science. His main argument was that Genesis presents the "science and history of the day" as "incidental vessels" to convey spiritual truths. Lamoureux rewrote his article as a 2009 journal paper, incorporating excerpts from his books, in which he noted the similarities of his views to theistic evolution, but objected to that term as making evolution the focus rather than creation. He also distanced his beliefs from the deistic or more liberal beliefs included in theistic evolution. He also argued that although referring to the same view, the word arrangement in the term "theistic evolution" places "the process of evolution as the primary term, and makes the Creator secondary as merely a qualifying adjective".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biologos.org/uploads/projects/Lamoureux_Scholarly_Essay.pdf|title=Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution|author=Denis O. Lamoureux|year=2003|publisher=University of Alberta|quote=The most important word in the term evolutionary creation is the noun "creation". These Christian evolutionists are first and foremost thoroughly committed and unapologetic creationists. They believe that the world is a creation that is absolutely dependent for every instant of its existence on the will and grace of the Creator. The qualifying word in this category is the adjective "evolutionary", indicating simply the method through which the Lord made the cosmos and living organisms. This view of origins is often referred to as "theistic evolution". However, such a word arrangement places the process of evolution as the primary term, and makes the Creator secondary as merely a qualifying adjective.|access-date=25 April 2012}}</ref>

Divine intervention is seen at critical intervals in history in a way consistent with scientific explanations of [[speciation]], with similarities to the ideas of [[progressive creationism]] that God created "kinds" of animals sequentially.<ref name="NCSE Continuum 2022" /><ref>see also {{harvp|Scott|1997|p=271}} for another definition</ref>

Regarding the embracing of Darwinian evolution, historian [[Ronald Numbers]] describes the position of the late 19th-century geologist [[George Frederick Wright]] as "Christian Darwinism".<ref>
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|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aDmZ5_iUixgC
|page= 36
|quote= "The reasons for [George Frederick] Wright's transformation from Christian Darwinist to fundamentalist can only be surmised."
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[[Jacob Klapwijk]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Klapwijk |first=Jacob |title=Nothing in Evolutionary Theory Makes Sense Except in the Light of Creation |author-link=Jacob Klapwijk |date=2012 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24710031 |journal=[[Philosophia Reformata]] |volume=77 |issue=1 |pages=57–77 |doi=10.1163/22116117-90000522 |jstor=24710031 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805122206/https://jacobklapwijk.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Nothing-in-evolution-theory.pdf |archive-date=5 August 2021|quote=The theory of evolution only makes sense in the light of creation, for creation is a force that drives all of temporal history [...]The short summary [of 'theistic evolution'] often is: God creates through evolution.[...]Thus I see "Creation through evolution" as a groundless statement. First of all, it contradicts the Biblical witness in Genesis of a completed creation.|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and [[Howard J. Van Till#Creation and evolution|Howard J. Van Till]]<ref>[[Ronald L. Numbers]]. ''Darwinism comes to America''. [[Harvard University Press]], 1998. ISBN 0-674-19312-1 pp.12,57,163</ref> have, while accepting both theistic creation and evolution, rejected the term "theistic evolution".

In 2006, American [[geneticist]] and Director of the [[National Institute of Health]], [[Francis Collins]], published ''[[The Language of God]]''. He stated that faith and science are compatible and suggested the word "BioLogos" (Word of Life) to describe theistic evolution. Collins later laid out the idea that God created all things, but that evolution is the best scientific explanation for the diversity of all life on Earth. The name [[BioLogos]] instead became the name of the organization Collins founded years later. This organization now prefers the term "evolutionary creation" to describe their take on theistic evolution.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://biologos.org/common-questions/what-is-evolutionary-creation
|website=BioLogos |title=What is Evolutionary Creation?
|date=February 6, 2024}}</ref>