The Highway Forums Announcements What's New on The Highway website? "B.B. Warfield on Creation and Evolution" by Fred Zaspel

To start off the new year I thought it would be interesting to provide a topic that has been tossed around and debated for decades concerning the views of the renowned conservative, Reformed theologian and professor, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield of old Princeton. It has been alleged that B.B. Warfield, as conservative a biblical scholar that he was, embraced the theory of evolution and rejected the doctrine of creation; an 'ex nihilo' (out of nothing) creation in which God created the world and all its inhabitants in the space of six twenty-four hour days and rested from that creation work on the seventh day.

If some think that this is nothing more than an old dusty subject, that would certainly be an unfortunate error. For even recently, a once recognized conservative Reformed scholar by the name of Dr. Bruce Waltke has openly embraced the theory of evolution and unashamedly rejected the Christian, biblical doctrine of creation. Given that those who embrace evolution, to one degree or another or who have opted to go over to the less 'offensive' premise of "Intelligent Design" sometimes defend their view(s) by referring to Warfield as one who has set the precedence for credibility of their non-biblical stance. So, the question should be asked, and that is exactly what Fred Zaspel does in this article, Did B.B. Warfield indeed embrace and teach that evolution was true and it should be accepted by the Christian Church?

Enjoy this evidentiary excursion through the writings of B.B. Warfield and the truth revealed in them.

In His service and grace,

You can read this month's article here: [b]B.B. Warfield on Creation and Evolution[/b].