I applaud @sfmatheson assessment in his posting above.
At the same time, it seems you, @Gisteron, are trying to grind me down with your forensic skills. But you are running close to the threshhold where discussing these matters with you becomes a waste of time:
A] you dismiss my points because i have not addressed or included the writings of the Quran. Really? Are you going to keep dancing to that tune? All you have convinced me of is that you are trying to obfuscate much more than you want to elucidate.
B] you require me to PROVE that the majority of English speaking Christians accept Resurrection along with their Evolutionary science.
You may be familiar with the long running surveys that show a consistent 37% to 42% share of Americans believe in 6 days of creation … while in the UK, this group is much smaller: 13% to 15%.
In a future posting I’ll see what these percentages look like for Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc.
I was more-or-less raised as a Unitarian (a group of “non-virgin birthers”). There is very little confusion about evolution in our discussions; what’s more we represent a tiny demographic sliver of Christianity!
So what about everyone else? Mainline denominations like Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans and so on? Remember, we have already counted the Young Earth folks (regardless of denomination).
This leaves us all the various flavors of Old Earthers who ACCEPT evolution as a basic scientific reality. Setting aside Unitarians like me, we are left with Christians who implicitly mix some degree of the divine with their daily diet of science.
Which part of the Divine? Do they tend to be more interested in a divine birth of Jesus than in Jesus being raised to the God-head? We would do ourselves some good to find out if mainstream Christian evolutionists favored “this or that” part of the divine life cycle.
But what can we say for now about this remainder group of mainstream Christians? I think it is easy enough go see that everytime a certified atheist argues - - in the dozens of posts every week at Peaceful Science - - that evolution is sufficient WITHOUT any divine involvement, we are actively alienating the support of the the part of the Christian Communion that PS was hoping would embrace the work of opposing Young Earthers!!!
If we dont work harder to tolerate some speculative discussions of the divine … as PART of an evolutionary view of the Universe, our relevance will continue to be a sideshow run by Atheistic Evolutionists who cant tolerate even mildly miraculous ideas shared by minimally enthusiastic Presbyterians and Congregationists!!