One cannot believe in evolution and at the same time, as a Christian, stand for the literal truth of the Bible. We cannot believe that we arose from nothing or from a primordial cell and developed ourselves out of lower animals by our own strength, while at the same time assuming that we were created as God's image.

— Detschko Svileno (b. 1941), Mediziner, Theologe und christlicher Apologet

Topics: Doubt & Hard Questions, The Bible & the Word of God

Detschko Svileno

Detschko Svilenov (* 1941) ist ein bulgarischer Mediziner, Theologe und evangelikaler Apologet, der in Sofia sowie an deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen tätig war. Er vertritt eine dezidiert kreationistische Schöpfungslehre und setzt sich in Veröffentlichungen für die Vereinbarkeit konservativer Bibelauslegung mit naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Fragestellungen ein. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Werk den Versuch, theologische und ethische Positionen naturwissenschaftlich zu begründen, wobei seine Ablehnung der Evolutionstheorie in der Wissenschaft als pseudowissenschaftlich kritisiert wird.

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