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How do we reconcile the two different “creation stories”?

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• New Interpreter’s Study Bible: Genesis (Abingdon Press, 2003).


• Joan Roughgarden, Evolution and Christian Faith: Re ections of an
  Evolutionary Biologist (Island Press, 2006).


• Barbara Brown Taylor, The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion
  (Cowley, 2000).

Suggested Questions for Further Discussion/Thought

1. Does the theory of evolution challenge or confi rm your faith in a Creator
   God? How so?


2. In Genesis 1, God is transcendent, in the “beyond”—God is big. In
   Genesis 2, God is very close, with human-like qualities. Which of these
   two images resonates more with your view of God? Why?


3. From the character Stan Marsh on South Park: “Couldn’t evolution be the
   answer to how and not the answer to why?”

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