There is an unfortunate feeling among many Christians to their horror that they are related to everything in creation. Humans evolving from something that is less than human offends and somehow demeans our unique humanity as people made in the image of God. But what if we saw the whole universe flowing from God and that we could rejoice in all creation manifesting God's eternal attributes, love, and presence.
Nor does it help when some Christian scientists want to throw out major doctrines like the fall or creation as a special event. This just reinforces the suspicions that somehow science is the problem or can't be trusted or somehow undermines the Christian faith (especially when Christians see their own either radically reinterpreting the faith or jettisoning major Christian doctrines in the light of the latest scientific understandings of life and the universe). As long as Christians keep ignoring science as if somehow it will go away or telling their children they must choose the Bible against science will continue to have disastrous effects on the church and its young people.
We are long past the day that evolution is a theory or might be true. It is established as a scientific process and law just like the second law of thermo-dynamics or the law of gravity. Evolution may continue to evolve in its own understanding but we are way past whether evolution is true or not or a fact or not. If the physical process of evolution is true, Christians need to embrace truth wherever it is found because all truth is God's truth. Christians may be missing a great adventure of discovery that God has inter-connected all reality by God's sustaining grace and the implications of spiritual evolution for people made in God's image is huge spiritually.
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