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I have to admit that when I started this blog, I knew what the core concepts would be:

1. Science is accurate.
2. Scripture is accurate.
3. Young Earth Creationism is correct that Genesis 1 is literal and historical.
4. Old Earth Creationism is correct that the earth is old.
5. Gap Theorists are correct that there is a gap in the creation story (it’s Day 4 though, not Genesis 1:1)
6. Day-age Theorists are correct that each day maps to an age.
7. Theistic Evolutionists are correct that God caused mutations and allowed Natural Selection to occur.

There are other principles as well that have been added and/or refined over the past several months.  However, one thing that has been slow in coming has been a solid theory for how Evolution and Creation work into each other.  Well, over the last several weeks, I have developed and documented several principles of Evolution, which I would like to now bring together.

Principles introduced in “Evolution and Geocreationism I“:

• When I say “Evolution”, I simply mean the accumulation of changes over time, leading to new species.  Contrary to common usage, no exclusion of God is meant or intended.
• Small changes can accumulate into a new species.
• Genesis and the fossils both record God’s intentional creation of life.
• Some selection was natural, some divine.

Principles introduced in “Evolution and Geocreationism II“:

• God did not simply create the process of Evolution and then retreat.
• God created actively during the creation “day times”, and let Evolution produce what it would during the day and the night.
• God let Evolution produce what it would while He rested on Day 7.
• God introduced mutations as it pleased Him and pruned the results of Evolution as it pleased Him.

Principles introduced in “Genesis 1:11 to 13 - Creation of Plant Life“:

• Plants did not appear on Day 3.
• God removed a insurmountable hindrance to seeded land plants (a lack of land).
• Creating land was all that God did on Day 3 toward the creation of seeded land plants.
• God “let the land produce vegetation”, implying a voluntary (temporary) deferral Evolution.
• Non-seeded plants were transitional forms that led to seeded plants.

Other principles I may not have said outright: 

• Where Evolution proceeded unencumbered, we are likely to see transitional forms in the fossil record.
• Where God created mutations Himself, we are likely to see no transitional forms.
• Presence of a transitional form does not rule out divine interaction.
• Absence of a transitional form does not mean God acted.

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