https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_609.cfm
^ the best piece I’ve read on this. and I’ve read and heard a lot.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from the beginning – Ecclesiastes 3:11
*look more into biblical archeology
intelligent people have been christians forever, and there are some excellent thoughts out there. I don’t think it’s “stupid” for christians to be wary of evolution or to not accept it, which is how some theistic evolutionists come across to me – as if it’s so obvious and to deny it is stupid.
…universal evolutionism is a kind of optical illusion, produced by attending exclusively to the [chicken’s] emergence from the egg. We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a perfect oak. We are reminded constantly that the adult human being was an embryo, never that the life of the embryo came from two adult human beings. We love to notice that the express engine of to-day is the descendant of the ‘Rocket’; we do not equally remember that the ‘Rocket’ springs not from some even more rudimentary engine, but from something much more perfect and complicated than itself—namely, a man of genius. The obviousness or naturalness which most people seem to find in the idea of emergent evolution thus seems to be a pure hallucination. – CS Lewis
to listen to soon:
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