Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story

Hugh Pickens writes "Polls by Gallup and the Pew Research Center find that four out of 10 Americans believe humanity descend from Adam and Eve, but NPR reports that evangelical scientists are now saying publicly that they can no longer believe the Genesis account and that it is unlikely that we all descended from a single pair of humans. 'That would be against all the genomic evidence that we've assembled over the last 20 years so not likely at all,' says biologist Dennis Venema, a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation, a Christian group that tries to reconcile faith and science. 'You would have to postulate that there's been this absolutely astronomical mutation rate that has produced all these new variants in an incredibly short period of time. Those types of mutation rates are just not possible. It would mutate us out of existence.' Venema is part of a growing cadre of Christian scholars who say they want their faith to come into the 21st century and say it's time to face facts: There was no historical Adam and Eve, no serpent, no apple, no fall that toppled man from a state of innocence."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Haven]

The BioLogos Foundation and Center for Cognitive Dissonance

Re:Any Rabbi worth his salt could have told them.

[PopeRatzo]

Any Rabbi worth his salt could have told them. Genesis is allegory

And any evangelical could have told them, "Why would you listen to someone who's going to burn in Hell for not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, anyway. Genesis is Science. (Go Rick Perry!)"

See, when you have one religious believer arguing with another, it's like a retard fight. There are never winners, only losers.

Re:Fixing such a thing...

[GameboyRMH]

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Re:The people in power

[Opportunist]

Interesting, we're in the same field of study. How did you solve the problem of pancake tectonics in the event of a sudden movement of the plate?

Re:Science vs Religion: Contradictions?

[cultiv8]

You can be an Evangelical Christian and believe in Evolution.

Heretic! To suggest the bible may be full of stories and poems and metaphors, heresy! A product of the culture 2000 years ago, and subject to interpretation, hogwash! Jesus wrote the bible with his own hand, neigh, with both hands writing at the same time, and he's still PISSED OFF over losing the whole "sun is the center of the universe" debate.