Originally posted by robrecht
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1. Son of Charles Hodge, the conservative Presbyterian theologian, who taught at Old Princeton Seminary in the 19th century, and who is considered ultra-orthodox. Interestingly, while the senior Hodge famously wrote in What is Darwinism? that evolution by chance is atheism (p.156), he did in fact allow for evolution, "If God made them it makes no difference so far as the question of design is concerned how he made them; whether at once or by a process of evolution." (p.95). IOW, he accepted Theistic Evolution.
2. I've seen some list Packer as an Old Earth Creationist but he wrote an endorsement for the pro-TE anti-Intelligent Design book called Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? in 2008. More recently he "heartily commend[ed]" in the forward another theistic evolutionary work, Melvin Tinker's Reclaiming Genesis. And when he was shown the quote from Billy Graham where he expressed lukewarm support for evolution of man Packer's response was "Most excellent! My sentiments exactly. Well said!"
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