David said "You knit me together in my mother's womb." This and other statements in the bible credit God as creator of each human being in the womb. This act of creation is not instantaneous but involves a process. Yet it is the work of God. This process is well understood by science. From the process of fertilization, implantation, fetal development and birth, scientists find that which is explainable, predictable, and regular. Science offers a complex sequence of naturalistic cause and effect for the development of a child yet life remains a mystery.
Christians base their disagreement with evolutionists on their belief Genesis 1,2 and 3 are literal but are they? We know sin did not enter the world through Adam. The bible tells us that by the time Adam sinned two members of the creation had sinned, the serpent and Eve. Sin entered the world through the serpent that had a conversation with Eve. Sin did not literally enter the world through Adam so Adam must represent human kind. If Adam is not literal maybe the rest of the account is not also.
Historically the church has been wrong when science differed with current Christian beliefs. What science has going for it that Christians do not is the fact that every scientist would love to disprove the theory of evolution. So far they have been unable to do that but not due to the lack of effort. Christians only challenge those who differ with them never those who agree with them.
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