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A Reformed Critique of Evolutionary Creationism: Focusing on Dr. Jong-Hak Woo’s Ideas

This essay attempts to demonstrate that traditional Reformed theology cannot be harmonized with evolutionary creationism found in Dr. Jong-Hak Woo’s book, An Atheist Journalist Inquires of a Christian Scientist. The imagined interlocutor “Dr. Han Byeol,” the representer of Dr. Jong-Hak Woo’s ideas, argues for an evolutionary creationism, but his ideas cause many serious problems in theological issues as well as in logical consistency. First, the interlocutor argues that God created the world and human beings through the Big Bang and evolution. He, however, does not prove this but just presupposes it. Second, his theism is similar to deism in his scientific observation of nature and is close to pantheism in his interpretation of its results. Third, the interlocutor’s ideas clash with the Reformed doctrines of revelation, Scripture, Adam, the image of God, original sin, death, atonement, and Christ. In sum, the evolutionary creationism of the interlocutor is severely inconsistent with traditional Reformed theology.