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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
- Does the theory of evolution challenge or confi rm your faith in a Creator
God? How so? - 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? - From the character Stan Marsh on South Park: “Couldn’t evolution be the
answer to how and not the answer to why?”