Re: [asa] Science as Christian vocation

John:

> Thanks for this helpful analysis. But I would suggest that it is a
> new theological problem to be confronted with the evidences for
> common descent and to realize that God likely used the same processes
> to create man that He did for lower life forms. I would venture to
> say that throughout Christian history this has been commonly assumed
> to be discontinuous and one of the perqs associated with being
> created in the image of God.

I tried to make clear that my comment was limited to the issue of
"survival of the fittest" and the role of death in evolution.
Certainly, the descent of humans and the other apes from a common
ancestor raises theological questions. There are others questions as
well. However, I do not think that the theological problems are
insurmountable, or that they are different in magnitude from problems
generated by other conceptions of Earth and human history.

Keith

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Received on Wed Feb 4 14:35:44 2009