Two hundred and one years ago today, Charles Darwin was born. Some churches mark the Sunday nearest Darwin’s birthday as an occasion to reflect on the relationship between science and religion. It’s been an uneasy relationship for a very long time. Disagreement about science and Biblical interpretation is nothing new. Even Augustine, who lived from 354-430 […]
Category: Genesis
Snake in the Grass?
For some Christians part of their difficulty in accepting evolution is that in evolution death and violence occur in creation before the appearance of humans and what Christians call “the Fall”. In some classical accounts of the Fall the pre fall world is a place without death and without suffering. Death enters the world because of and as […]
Conversation in Faith 