evolution

In this final week on this series of Christian Debates: Evolution and Intelligent Design, I'd like to add a couple of considerations to keep in mind as we discuss this issue.

Today we continue our series on how we, as Christians, can discuss and debate possibly devisive issues. We're looking specifically at the issue of Christian evolution v. creationism (or Intelligent Design). I've asked my friend, Marcus Goodyear, to guest post today on the view of Christian evolution.

After watching 2001 as a boy, I worried I’d committed some sort of felony. I asked my dad about the gorilla-men. “My Sunday school teacher told us God made the world in six days.”

“That’s true, son,” my dad said. “It’s just a movie.”

This large group of people whom we call Christians are defined by things like justification by faith, the Apostles' and the Nicene Creeds, and our hope of resurrection. Within that, we have many distinctives and many beliefs.

In two days our nation will celebrate the 200^th birthdays of two men who changed history—Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Oddly enough, they were indeed born on the same day in 1809.

And as far as human dignity is concerned, that’s pretty much where the similarities end. Can you think of two people who are farther apart on that subject? The former saw people as created equal in God’s image and the latter fathered modern evolutionary theory.