Build is a popular blog called Godless and Dixie from Neil Carter who very good

writer he was a former Christian he claims and is now an atheist and he wrote an article called Faith and Reason are not really friends.

He touches on some things and some areas that you've been studying here lately in this. He says, you may not find this as

fascinating as I do, but I recently came across a video put out by the Gospel Coalition,

a think tank for Calvinist, co-founded by Tim Keller, a Presbyterian pastor, an

author who herein verbalizes his own reservations about human evolution.

He says, what stands out most of me is that while Keller has used up a

great deal of ink over the years arguing that science and the Christian faith need

not be mortal enemies, he admits here that it doesn't really matter how univocally the sciences tell us that humans

evolved gradually from other primates.

He still believes the human race was specifically created from scratch starting with an

original couple named Adam and Eve.

This connects with my current work on the question of the historical Adam and what Keller is arguing for is the de novo

creation of Adam with no prior biological ancestry.

I do not think that that is a requirement of biblical orthodoxy.

I think that the Genesis narrative is highly figurative and

highly metaphorical and so when Adam is created out of the dust of the earth I

think this is simply a figurative

description of God's fashioning man and it's fully compatible with man's

having biological ancestors.

But having said that, I found Carter's critique

of Keller and his position to be extremely uncharitable

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