Of course evolution is not inconsistent with God’s creation.
It’s embarrasing that we should still find such an idea controversial in the 21st century.
Exactly. When one examines the evolution of bacteria and viruses, for example, evolution cannot be denied. Our high school athletes have been getting a particularly nasty strain of staph from our turf field. The staph has evolved to the point where antibiotics are nearly useless. I’m pretty sure the pope is not talking about humans evolving from single cell orgs that made it out of the ooz.
> Of course evolution is not inconsistent with God’s creation.
If humans descended from apes, and the Creation account is false, then why would we need Christ to save us from the sin introduced into the world by the first created humans?
Jesus Himself taught the Creation as fact. Evolution makes Him a liar.
It’s embarrasing that we should still find such an idea controversial in the 21st century.
Just before the flood, before the fall of the babel tower and before Sodom and Gomorrah were burned to cinders.
But it is inconsistent with creation.
Evolution teaches that life existed on the planet for eons, struggling, suffering, and dying, before man-—a recent arrival-—came on the scene.
Scripture says that man was created at the beginning of the world-—Jesus in the New Testament confirms it. And there was no bloodshed, pain, or death until after the fall.
Those two views are at odds with one another; you pretty much have to pick one.
I suspect many Christians-—and understand, please, I’m not accusing you personally-—are afraid of being seen as anti-intellectual. They think if they don’t claim support for evolution, someone might laugh at them and call them a toothless snake handler.