Warning: Speculative Theology Ahead!

I know I have said negative things about speculative theology. But I am only opposed to speculative theology as orthodoxy. I think it can be helpful for presenting an alternative, biblical concept, as long as people don't accept it as God's own truth. -SK

But what about God’s participation in a process that took millions of years? This requires a little speculation, but it is possible to reconcile theology and science in this regard as well. It is clear in the biblical text that God had “helpers” in creation. Some of these helpers are metaphorical, such as “wisdom” in Proverbs 7, but some are considered to be literal, such as the Word in John 1 and Jesus in Colossians 1. And Elohim in Genesis 1 calls himself “we”, which is rare in the Bible text.

My speculation is this: that God created the earth much in the way that a CEO of Microsoft creates programs. The CEO orders the programs made, but the actual creation is done by underlings. This is not that the CEO cannot do the programs himself, but that he is teaching his underlings to create. Thus, there is a progression in creation, and it happens over time, while an all powerful, all knowing creator would do it all at once.

My speculation goes further: A computer program is not actually made by a single person, but later programmers actually borrow pieces of earlier programs in order to quickly develop their programs, without having to re-invent the wheel. Thus, if one looks at computer programs over the whole of the invention of them, it looks as if they “evolved”, that is, developed in a natural progression. This is because a single program develops a useful set of text, which is then found after in many other programs. However, we understand that there were many designers involved that made that progression possible.

Again, this is speculation, but it is this sort of speculation that might help there be a new kind of creationism that, like the intelligent design philosophy, would take a fair look at both the biblical text and the fossil record and try to determine God’s plan from that.

From the fossil record, and from looking at other creatures, we can determine that the parts of humanity were compiled from other creature’s collections of cells. However, the whole of humanity remains unique. Humanity truly is a special creation.