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The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins is unavailable, but you can change that!

Can Christianity and evolution coexist? Traditional Christian teaching presents Jesus as reversing the effects of the fall of Adam. However, an evolutionary view of beginnings doesn’t allow for a historical Adam, making evolution seem incompatible with what Genesis and the apostle Paul say about him. For Christians who accept evolution and want to take the Bible seriously, this presents a tension...

To round out our discussion on this last point, the following is a summary of the evidence that supports the contemporary scholarly consensus. 1. The entire Pentateuch is written in the third person and in the past tense. The Pentateuch is self-evidently a story about characters in Israel’s past: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob—and Moses. The clear impression is that all of these figures, including Moses, are presented as figures from the distant past. When seen from this perspective, comments
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