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The law of evolution is selfishness. survival and preservation is only possible if one looks out for oneself, or maybe an immediate relation.
However, the law of God's kingdom is the spirit of self-denial, to love God and one another as oneself1. A love so deep that One would not hesitate to give up His life for His friends.
Simply put, evolution does not carry the signature of God. It does not match the character of God.
God created creatures in perfection in the beginning, out of love. He pronounced them as good. Death and suffering resulted only after the fall into sin, and did not exist before it.
1. Since the Advent of Christ, fulfilling the mandatum novum, the new commandment, loving others as HE has loved us.
Scriptural support
9 The Lord is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.
4 what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? 5 Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor. 6 Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet, 7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, 8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the sea.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Fatherβs will. 30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
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Scripture bears this out clearly, when talking very specifically about the days of the week, and the sanctification of the seventh day in Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
So you see can that verse 11, in context, leaves NO ROOM for a theory that God took longer than seven literal days to create heaven and earth. A Biblical stance on the issue holds against the idea that life evolved from simple organisms over millions of years.
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I'm not sure if there is very "scholarly" but the main (If not one of) problem I would suppose theistic evolutionist would have is the manner in which mankind is portrayed in the Bible versus the naturalistic type of view evolution has of mankind.
Evolutionist would have you believe that we are but just a higher evolved type of animal. A view that is in stark contras to the special nature mankind has in the Bible. We are the crown or jewel of creation but under these naturalistic views of creation there seems little acknowledgment of our specialness.
I personally hold a view agnosticism as to the question of how the life sustaining universe was created. I'm not all that convince that the manner in which God created is something our limited faculties are able to comprehend.
That may seem weird view for a Bible adherent to have but I think the question of who made is answerable while the question of how is not? That does not factor into my belief as a religious person though. I hope to ask God how exactly he made what he made when I meet him.
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There are many, many more reasons. These are only a handful of ones as to why evolution fails in general, let alone why theistic evolution fails.
If you are interested in more depth to answers, consider going to YouTube and searching for names lIke Dr. Walt Brown and his hydroplate theory. Dr Kent Hovind's creation seminars (also search for 'young earth').
If you want to get closer to a scholarly source, consider organizations such as ICR, Institute for Creation Research, which has regular FREE magazines with scholarly content representing the leading edge of creation research (and, hence, young earth/anti-theistic evolution).
Additionally, you could check out David Rives and his show, Creation in the 21st century on TBN (also YouTube and FB) for both new finds as well as additional resources. Also, the new series of DVDs from ICR, "Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis" presents the literal Biblical account for creation in a twelve 1/2 hr DVD series aimed for the millennials. You can find the first video available free online, as an introduction.
A thorough, exhaustive list, of course, is not possible, but this covers the basis for it. At its heart, after sifting through many layers of misinformation (such as the notion of "gill slits" in embryos, a notion still taught today in public schools as true despite being disproved as a complete fraud 150 years ago, and the many hoaxes of "missing links", the direct evidence for evolution is surprisingly slim, in my opinion.
One could answer the question, where is the scholarly evidence FOR evolution, if one wanted, but that would be a much larger debate.
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Last week I heard this argument, again. According to theistic evolution, millions of years took place and animals died all the time. But Genesis 1 says that after each day God pronounced it as good, therefore there must not have been death, because death is bad. And if there was no death, then millions of years of dead animals is wrong too.
Sure my simplification doesn't sound scholarly, but I'm cutting to the chase.