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Self-Proclaimed “Black Darwin” of Biologos Declares Social Justice Our Only Hope

Biologos, the theistic evolution organization founded by Francis Collins and heavily supported by Tim Keller, is swimming in the primordial goo of false teaching and leftist ideology. Many theistic evolutionists begin their deconstruction by denying the historicity of the first three chapters of Genesis; a perspective quickly devolves into a denial of any other inconvenient Biblical truths.

Biologos refuses to take a position on Biblical inerrancy and openly admits that its members have a broad range of views on whether the Bible is inerrant. The result is inevitably a theology that denies the trustworthiness of Biblical narrative. In a vacuum of truth, Biologos and its founder Francis Collins, have embraced numerous worldly ideologies that directly contradict the truth of scripture.

As head of the NIH, Collins oversaw an increase in the ghoulish use of murdered baby parts for scientific research, made overtures towards the acceptance of antibiblical and anti-science LGBTQ affirming policies, and directed the COVID masking and vaccine public policy charade that convinced millions of Christians that they should live fearfully and forsake the assembly of the local church. 

Keeping in step with the deconstruction trends at Biologos, Joseph L Graves, an up-and-coming Biologos conference speaker, recently announced, in an article released on the Biologos website, that humanity faces extinction, and its only hope is social justice. 

Graves, who claims that his friends and colleagues call him “Black Darwin” for his prowess in the field of evolutionary studies, might also have earned the title “Black Greta Thunberg” for his recent baseless doomsday predictions about the future extinction of humanity. Graves doesn’t offer any explanations for his belief that the human race is doomed to “extinction,” but he claims to have a divine calling, which he compares to the “Voice in the Wilderness” of John the Baptist, only to proclaim the “truth” of social justice.

Still, I feel I was placed here for a reason. Like John the Baptist, I was called on to give voice to the truth.  (A Voice in the Wilderness, excerpt from Conclusion)

Graves believes that the justice provided by God at the end of days is not sufficient. He clearly denies the sovereignty of God in such matters.

Unfortunately, there are too many within the broad tent of our faith who are entirely comfortable with the status quo, or who simply think that we are in the “end times” and Jesus will soon sort everything out. 

Graves’ social justice resolution unmasks the gospel according to Biologos. That gospel is the false Social Gospel of social justice. Graves is just a secular humanist, cosplaying as a Christian. 

In the final chapter of my book, I outline a path towards social justice that all people of goodwill can get behind, so that like Amos 5:4 we might “…let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” I also emphasize what is at stake if we don’t do anything. Social justice is our only hope, not just because it is morally right and long overdue but because without it our species will die. We are now in a race between justice and extinction. I conclude that we now have a choice to decide to save ourselves, but this is only possible by learning to love our neighbors the way Christ taught us.

Contrary to Graves’ lunacy, Jesus and his atoning work on the cross are the only hope for humanity. There is only one path to salvation, and it doesn’t involve human effort or “saving ourselves.”

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:11-12

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Phil Vischer and Francis Collins Team Up For Cringey BioLogos Acoustic Duet

In an effort to promote BioLogos’ new Integrate Evolutionary science curriculum, woke Veggie-tales creator Phil Vischer, and former NIH director and BioLogos founder Francis Collins, recently teamed up to record the cringeworthy acoustic duet, You Say Tomato, I Say Genome.

Vischer, the woke Holy Post podcaster, found out that Big Idea, the company that he founded no longer required his services, as the company found replacement voice actors. Now he has plenty of time on his hands to promote leftist causes on his podcast and hobnob with the likes of Francis Collins.

Collins was praised by many leftist Christian commentators as an example of how to be a Christian in a secular environment for his work as director of the NIH. However, Scrutiny of his tenure revealed that Francis was anything but faithful, as he promoted LGBTQ causes and PRIDE week, defended the trafficking of aborted baby parts, defended experimentation of fetal tissue, made the case that in-person public schooling is a higher priority than in-person church, and covered up evidence of harm caused by Wu-Flu vaccines. To quote Ray Rava of the EDW:

Collins previously teamed up with N.T. Wright to produce the equally cringeworthy song “Genesis” for BioLogos.

BioLogos, an organization that syncretizes evolutionary teachings with Christianity, claims that their teaching is faithful to science, while also being faithful to the scriptures. Biblical inerrancy and sufficiency have been thrown out the window by the organization. While they claim to believe in the miracles of the Bible, BioLogos completely discounts one of the greatest miracles of all-time, the seven-day creation. Further examination of the BioLogos website reveals that while they claim to believe that Genesis is literal history, the accounts of the fall of man, the flood, and many of the other miracles of God have been gutted and reinterpreted to accommodate evolutionary theory.

The latest BioLogos Integrate Curriculum includes a unit entitled “Climate Change & Our Commission: Should Christians Care About Climate Change?” The unit encourages students to develop a presentation on climate change to present to their church.

h/t to WokePreacherTV

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‘Christian’ Scientist Francis Collins Tries To Walk Back Comments about Vaccine Safety

Speaking at Biologos’ Faith and Science In an Age of Tribalism, the prominent #BigEva boosted ‘Christian’scientist (yeah, right) and former head of the NIH Francis Collins acknowledges, under the questioning of Biologos President Deborah Kaarsma, that perhaps he should not have been so certain to affirm the utter and complete safety of vaccines.

Kaarmsa, who is mildly introspective given that she spent the better part of two years bullying and beating up on the vaccine-hesitant, asks him:

Kaarsma: “So we were asking earlier like, ‘what do you wish could have been different in the last two years?’ And some things that I’ve been reading are about the public communication of conveying the uncertainty better in some way. And we’re all a little gun shy of that, because people just jump on us. “Oh, you changed your mind.”

That sound look makes it look like you’re weak, you’re waffling. And scientists must not know anything, because they keep changing their minds and (unintelligible) were like ‘okay, come on, guys. We’re trying in the midst of all of this to give the best knowledge possible.’

And maybe it would help if we had if all of those presentations have been couched with ‘and we have an X percent uncertainty. We’re not sure things might change later.’ Maybe they were and that just never got out there. I don’t know. Francis, do you might have something to add on that.

He responds:

Collins: “Yeah. No, I think you’ve said it well. Again, I think humility is appropriate also, in talking about the vaccines. Yes, we were quite confident that the results of the phase three trials were very clear. But of course, we found out later that there were rare events, in the case of the mRNA vaccines of pericarditis, myocarditis, in the case of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, rare events of a clotting disorder that was too rare to have popped up in a 30,000 person trial.

So there was no reason to know about them then, but they ultimately emerged once we got millions and millions of people getting injected. So yeah, even there, as we said, the vaccines are safe and effective, it would have been appropriate to say ‘based upon a study rigorously done of 30,000 people, that doesn’t rule out the possibility there might be really rare side effects that could in fact, be significant.’

And I’m not sure that necessarily we conveyed that as well as we might have.

Of course, it’s fairly evident that this is not true repentance and acknowledgment of their mistake, as they defend their actions and behaviors as being appropriate based on the knowledge they had, rather than seeing that even with what they did have, they should not have been so dogmatic and quite frankly insulting with all the ways they should to captivate and crush the populace.

h/t Wokepreachertv

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Biologos Founder Francis Collins Refuses to Condemn CDC’s ‘Pregnant People’ Language as Unscientific or Untrue

One of the world’s leading scientists and geneticists and professing Christians, Francis Collins, has refused to answer the question of whether or not we can trust the CDC as a reliable source for our scientific advice on account of their advocating from unscientific pro-trans “pregnant people” language.

Francis Collins is also the Director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the founder of BioLogos, the self-described “Christian organization” that seeks to bridge the bible and evolution while insisting that humans evolved from apes 200,000 years ago and that Adam and Eve never actually existed.

During the September 2021 Church leader podcast, he and Ed Stetzer discuss vaccine hesitancy and the role of the CDC is contributing to that, after a hundred qualifiers and reassurances that he’s on Collin’s side, he asks him how we can have confidence that the CDC is “trusting the science” and operating solely on a scientific basis unencumbered by external pressures, on account of the woke and unscientific practices of the CDC to drop language like “mothers” and replace it with “pregnant people.”

To quote @wokepreaherTV, “As Collins dances around the issue, declining to say that such transgender-appeasing language is untrue or unsupported by science, he bizarrely asserts that anyone who worries about anything more than COVID-19 is “unmoored” from a commitment to truth.

ED STETZER: A lot of people are suspicious of a lot of the apparatus that you oversee…Some of that comes from…the changing guidance on masks…but also, too, it’s the question of...I tell people, “Believe the CDC,” and then I see people from the CDC go on and change language about “mothers” to “pregnant persons,” and things of that sort. So…it’s becoming increasingly hard for me in the last few months, as one who wants to be your champion, when the apparatus that is under NIH and all the health stuff, seems to have been caught up in some of the currents of the day.

So why should I, as an evangelical Christian who believes that mothers have children, and yet that’s different language now coming from different parts of areas you oversee, then say, but what they’re saying about the virus, which I believe. Remember, I’m on your team. But I’m having to answer these questions to people in my churches. So how would you answer that as a fellow evangelical, that I trust?

FRANCIS COLLINS: Well, I would say, first of all, it’s probably not a surprise to any of us that all human institutions have flaws, and that certainly applies to government institutions and to churches, as well. They’re created by human beings. We have this incredible wisdom that is poured into rusty vessels, and it doesn’t always come out quite the way you would like. And so, be a little bit accepting of the fact that institutions are always going to have these flaws, but then try to look past that.

And again, let’s come back to this issue about what is the truth. And if there’s something I’m really worried about, more than even COVID-19, it’s this sense that we’ve become unmoored from an appreciation that truth is what really matters, that we will be guided by that. And if we start to step away from that, even if we don’t like the message, well, where will we be?

And this is not just the secular world that’s all about alternative facts, it’s the church, too. If we’ve lost that, if the truth is what we need to set us free, well the alternative is not a place that is going to have a future. So yeah, okay, go ahead and be frustrated about institutions that don’t say things quite the way you want, I hear ya. But ask, what’s the truth here? And where are you most likely to find it? And I would say you’re going to find a lot more truth in the CDC website than on Facebook.

Collins points out that like the CDC, churches also have issues and flaws and that we need to “look past that.” This may be true for some things, but if a church is vocally stating as a scientific fact that pro-trans nonsense like “birthing people’ is a thing, or is being pro-LGBTQ in any way and insist on using that language, we ought to thoroughly condemn and repudiate them as two-fold sons of hell and hand them over to satan. So not a good illustration or comparison at all.

Stetzer, dealing that Collins dodged the question, tries to apologetically goes in for a second time, but gets shut down.

STETZER: No. I agree with that. I agree with that. I would be remiss, and people will yell at me, if I didn’t say: I think, also, the truth is is that mothers are the people who are pregnant and have children. And so it’s hard hearing from you, who I know, and I know, you know, I know your journey. I know you love the Lord. That’s kind of a hard message. I want to say to you, yes, can you address that in some of your areas that you oversee, as well? Because that’s true, too. We’ve got to follow the science in multiple places. But again, remember, I’m on Francis Collins’ team, and I’m trying to answer people who, I say, “Listen, you’ve got to go to the CDC website, believe the truth.” And they say, “You mean the same CDC website that can’t say that mothers are pregnant?” So it’s harder for us to persuade those conversations. So what I hear you’re saying-

COLLINS: I’m really sorry that those issues are getting tangled up here, believe me, and I’m not the director of the CDC, right? And I am worried that, in fact, the credibility of some of the things we’re trying to say gets all muddied over with some of these other issues that are very controversial. So I totally hear you.

h/t Wokepreacherclips for the vid and transcript.

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Pew Research Poll: Faithful Christians Still Don’t Believe in Evolution

A new Pew Research Poll shows that “Christians” lag behind the rest of the world in believing that humans and animals evolved over millions of years, often showing as much as 35% disparity. While that is good news on the face of it, the number of professing Christians that do believe in it is far higher than it ought to be.

Like most polls from Pew or Barna, they ought to be taken with a ‘Lot’s wife’ worth of salt. One methodological point is that the graph doesn’t distinguish between the number of “Christians who say religion is very important to them” and “Christians who don’t”

Given that there is no such thing as a believer who says religion is not important to them, it’s a misnomer. If they wanted to know the percentage of Christians who believe in evolution, this would not be a self-identifying descriptor, but rather would only include those who say the Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant, sufficient word of God.

And then the number would drop down to  < 1 %.

Though Tim Keller and his ilk at BioLogos want you to believe that the earth is billions of years old and humans or human-like-humans have been evolving for millions of years, this is not Christian orthodoxy.

Rather, God created the universe ex-nihilo and the book of Genesis is to be taken literally, including talking serpents, Adam and Eve, 7-literal day creation, naming the animals, angel guarding Eden, people living to be nearly 1000 years old, the flood, Nephilim, etc. All of it.

Macroevolution for animals? No. Microevolution for the same? Sure. Human evolution? Heck no.

According to the survey:

“[there is] broad acceptance of evolution across these publics. A median of 74% say humans and other living things have evolved, while a median of just 21% think humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.

The 21% echoes a Biologos poll commissioned in 2013 that shows just 19% of Christian pastors believe the creation story ‘Answers-in-Genesis style.’

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Biologos Urges Signing of Statement: ‘Loving Your Neighbor Means Wearing Masks, Taking Vaccine, Working for Justice’

Biologos, the self-described “Christian organization” that seeks to bridge the bible and evolution while insisting that humans evolved from apes 200,000 years ago and that Adam and Eve never actually existed, released A Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times, urging signatories to declare that they trust the consensus of scientists and will follow their recommendations for battling the novel coronavirus, which includes wearing masks, getting vaccinated, fighting misinformation and working for justice.

Initial signatories on the statement include a few prominent names, such Deborah Haarsma, Daniel Harrel, Phillip Yancey, N.T. Wright, Walter Kim, Scot McKnight, David French, Richard Mouw, Phil Vischer, and thousands more. 

A few interesting portions of the statement read:

-We call on all Christians to follow the advice of public health experts and support scientists doing crucial biomedical research on COVID-19.

-Christians should listen to scientists and doctors when they speak in their area of expertise, especially when millions of lives are at stake.

-The word ‘science’ has become a weapon in the culture wars. Scientists are vilified and their findings ignored, while conspiracy theories go viral. Sadly, Christians seem just as susceptible to these trends. Thoughtful Christians may disagree on public policy in response to the coronavirus, but none of us should ignore clear scientific evidence.

-Experts have been communicating their knowledge in real time as the pandemic progresses, which has led to some confusion. In the early days, they advised the public against masks when supplies were needed for healthcare workers, but later they changed their message in response to more data.

-When Dr. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, tells us what scientists have learned about this infectious disease, he should be listened to.

-Our faith calls us to sacrifice ourselves for others and accept temporary limitations on our freedoms because we have a permanent and complete freedom in Christ (Hebrews 10:34)

-Even closer to our hearts is the impact of quarantine on church fellowship. As churches reopen, Christians need to balance God’s call to meet together with God’s call to protect the vulnerable among us. 

The statement leaves many questions, such as whether or not the consensus of the scientists is really clear and universally agreed to. Has there been a report released showing that the scientists overwhelmingly agreed on what must be done? What of countries like Sweden, whose scientists and governing bodies have advised against wearing masks and social distancing but rather have used a different model to great success? Should someone follow scientists in their own country or other countries as well?

What about when the scientists at WHO, CDC, or even Dr Faucci have been very wrong? What about following the advice of public health experts engaging in draconian measures? What of the fact that sometimes what may be in someone’s “best interest” “scientifically” (wearing masks, getting vaccinated) is not in someone’s best interest from a different perspective? What about the possibility that this is one pathetic “pandemic” and that many of the recommendations are purely hysterical reactions?

There is also the fact that the “consensus of scientists” is frequently stupid.

We see this in response to transgender issues, with prestigious, peer-reviewed publications telling us the consensus of the experts is that sex and gender are just social constructs and there is no biological relation to having a penis and being a male or having a vagina and being a female. Should we trust that consensus or not?

The statement from Biologos goes on to share things that Christians must do to support the scientists and their conclusions, and because of one’s faith in Christ, urging action and adherence to “trustworthy, consensus sources.”

Needless to say, here at Pulpit & Pen, we will NOT be signing the statement.