I do not think evolution is a topic Christians should run from. Rather, it is a topic that should excite us. The creation of man is a religious topic. How God came to place man here is a matter that should be of great interest to us.
My thoughts on what a Christian is, includes that he is a lover of truth, a seeker of truth. Truth and the gospel go hand in hand.
So, if all of science is saying evolution is how we came about, we should turn a listening ear, perk up, and want to know. "Nowadays, it is no longer possible to dispute the fact of evolution itself," writes Richard Dawkins in a book called, "The Greatest Show on Earth."
I cast my eyes up one paragraph from that statement, and find Dawkins noting that once people thought the sun was smaller than the earth, because from the information available to them, that was the reasonable assumption. But, we now have enough evidence that the sun is larger and it is no longer a matter in which new evidence will ever change what we know. Some things will never be disproved, Dawkins says, then adds, "Evolution and the heliocentric theory weren't always among them, but they are now."
If evolution is a set fact -- and it certainly appears it is -- it does not mean there is no God. Dawkins might make such a connection, but he is wrong. Nor does it mean Adam and Eve never existed. Dawkins might think so, but, again, he is wrong.
I do not know, for certain, how God went about the creation, but I see there is great evidence that He used evolution. If He did, He did. I have no problem with that.
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