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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...

B. B. Warfield, a passionate advocate of the inerrancy of the Bible, stated, ‘I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible … that need be opposed to evolution …’35 He believed that evolution could provide a tenable ‘theory of the method of divine providence in the creation of mankind’.36 The infamous debate between the Bishop of Oxford and Thomas Huxley at the 1860 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was not really about evolution versus creation or
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