At the same time, the notion that there was a first Homo sapiens ultimately doesn’t work. If we followed humanity backwards in time, there would be no obvious place to draw a line between H. sapiens and earlier hominins.
biological evolution
Science Reader Question: Original Sin Goes Viral?
So to think about the effects of the primal sin, the concept which we call original sin, seems to hinge in Scripture on two things: our capacity as rational beings, and the exercise of this rational capacity to choose something other than God.
Science Reader Question: Becoming Made in God’s Image
This conversation on the relationship between an evolutionary natural history and man’s creation in the image of God reminds me of a saying in the world of software engineering: “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”
Science Reader Question: Fugue in the Key of Adenine
Language metaphors for DNA are so natural we probably can’t get away from them entirely, but we can try other analogies beyond individual letters.
Science Reader Question: Seated at the Right 01101001 of God
Perhaps already you can see where a spiritual God would deal with relationships over forms since he himself does not have a form, and where a consistent God would be continually engaged in creation.