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Darwin, Creation and the Fall: Theological Challenges is unavailable, but you can change that!

2009 is the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his epoch-making Origin of Species. Christians (particularly evangelicals) have debated the extent and mechanisms of evolution—and some have rejected neo-Darwinism entirely. The relationship between the scientific understanding of human origins and the biblical story of human origins and the Fall...

Sociobiology tells us we are remarkably flexible and free. It tells us our self-interest is a natural product of evolution without which we would fail to flourish, but self-interest also leads us into fear and egocentricity Sociobiology tells us we naturally love our kin … but it may also involve us in nepotism, murder and genocide. Indeed, we have too many conflicting desires and too many choices. When we make wrong ones, evil comes into our lives.66 On this basis, Jesus did not die to atone for
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