1956 Geloof en Wetenschap : Orgaan van de Christelijke vereeniging van natuur- en geneeskundigen in Nederland - pagina 225

TOWARD A THEISTIC CREATIONISM by L. VERDUIN

„Even the wrath of man shall praise Him" says the believer with a glance at the Scripture that gives him warrant for saying it. This means that even the activities of sinful men have a place in the over-all program of God. Cyrus the Persian may not have known it, and had he known it he might not have liked it, but he was nevertheless a man in God's employ. John Calvin referred to the revolutionary spirits of his day with their radicalism in the realm of economics as „firebrands from hell"; but he added that they were nevertheless being employed by God to make the people of that age sensitive to the gross evils that they were condoning in the area of economic life. If we are good disciples of this John Calvin we will not be outraged at all if it is suggested that the rise of communism in our times is again God's way of sensitizing us in an area where we have long been callous Is perhaps the rise of evolutionism in the 19th century similarly intended by God to teach His people something they seemed unlikely to learn in any other way? Is evolutionism perhaps God's way of sensitizing us in an area where we have long been less than fully Christian? For the writer of these lines this suggestion is neither irreverent nor fanciful. He wishes to acknowledge openly that evolutionism has sensitized him to truths and emphases that would perhaps have remained hidden to him if the theory of evolution had not been promulgated. The purpose of this paper is to share with the reader some insights thus gained, in the hope that they may be useful and beneficial to Bible-believing Christians as they seek in the contemporary scene to find their way in regard to the problem of origins. The writer is inclined to think that what is said in this discussion may be not without usefulness to theologian and Christian scientist alike. Both of these experts have this assignment in common that they must face without obscurantism the known facts in the realm of nature. They also share with each other the duty of giving to the Bible such right-of-way as rightfully belongs to it. To do violence knowingly to the data of either of

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