Episode 148: Pete Enns - Adam, Evangelicalism, & the Metanarrative of Evolution

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How has theology developed alongside the findings of science? On this episode, Pete is sharing his reflections on what quantum physics and the theory of evolution tell us about the Bible and how we should interpret it light of scientific findings. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.8	I'm Pete Ends. And I'm Jared Byas.
0:08.5	Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast. And today's topic is all about evolution, but more than just
0:13.7	evolution. Let's get right into this shall we? Some of you know a few years ago I wrote a book called
0:19.2	the Evolution of Adam, came out in 2012. And I've been working on a second edition to that book,
0:25.8	which is going to come out sometime next year, I think late 2021. And part of what I did was
0:31.2	rewrite some of the pretty terrible pros I had in there. It's amazing how unclear you are when
0:37.1	you read yourself a few years later. But any of that's not the point. The point is that I'm also
0:41.8	writing an afterward to the book pretty much, you know, where I've stayed the same and where I've
0:48.5	changed with respect to the book. And it's a little bit of both. I stayed the same and I've changed.
0:53.2	But I wanted to share with all of you today some of my thinking on where I've really changed my
0:59.2	thinking or maybe put it this way, expanded my thinking on this whole issue of the Bible and
1:05.9	evolution. So to do that, let's start if I may with a just a quick synopsis of what the book,
1:13.4	the evolution of Adam was about. I wrote that as I said in 2012. And I wrote it to contribute to
1:20.4	a familiar and needed also a little bit contentious discussion concerning the relationship between
1:27.8	biological evolution and Christian faith. And I assumed evolution at the outset. I just assumed
1:34.1	that it's, you know, the essentially universal scientific consensus that common descent
1:40.0	is a compelling and powerful account of how we humans came to be. I don't contest that. My focus
1:47.0	was rather on the key biblical passages that tend to be seen as barriers to this discussion
1:53.0	among evangelicals. That's the primary audience for the book. Not the only one, but the primary audience.
1:59.4	And of course, as biblical passages with the story of Adam and Genesis 2 to 3, and Paul's use of
2:04.8	the Adam story in Romans 5 verses 12 to 21. And Paul talks about Adam as well in first Corinthians,
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