Evangelical and Evolutionist 2

Here I go again on one of my favorite things to gripe about.

This is what some thoughtful evangelicals, in my opinion, have to say about the dogged attachment of evangelicals, generally, to anti-evolutionism.

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Evangelicals and Science by Tim Stafford

and a quote from the last one:

A large number of evangelical Christians in America (not Europe) are stuck in an intellectual trap. They live and breathe in a world built on science, but they are fundamentally suspicious of science and think of it as an alien force. Surely this is a problem for evangelicals. They are excluding themselves from our era’s prime intellectual force. It is also a problem for scientists because they are excluded from the resources of a robust, biblical faith, and left to an arid materialism.

I say yes, materialism is dry and arid, as Ken Wilber says, a flatland. I never wanted to believe in materialism. But, when I was younger, I was propelled in that direction by the honest and sincere teaching of Christian teachers, really fine people all of them, who made Christianity and Evolution an either/or choice and by a faith heritage rooted in the rationalism of Locke and Bacon with no role for emotion and spirit and mystery.