What are the various problems with the theory of theistic evolution?

Answer 1

One of the problems Christians who accept evolution as fundamentally accurate face is the following: if the knowledge of our evolutionary history, as established by science, is accurate, then there would have been no literal Adam and Eve, and thus no original sin as The Bible depicts it. If this is so, then why did Jesus need to sacrifice himself?

Problems with theistic evolution are usually theological in nature, rather than scientific. The only real scientific problem with theistic evolution is a single question: is there any evidence to support the thesis that gods were involved with our evolution?

Another View:

The absence of transitional forms is an insurmountable hurdle for theistic evolutionists.

Another answer:"Once you have eliminated the impossible," the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes famously opined, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

After all, if evolution is ever disproven, god and creationism would not come out on top. Scientists would look elsewhere for new evidence to explain the origins and diversity of life on this planet.

"God did it," is a cop-out and not based on fact or reason. You would first have to prove god exists and explain god's origins. It cannot come from nothing, yet creationist won't apply this same logic when speaking of their god.

As to the lack of transitional forms: that is not true you can go look for the morphological intermediates that *do* exist within the lineage of trilobites, and how that lineage itself fits neatly into the nested hierarchies of Biology.