Hi, Dr. Craig, your honest and and faithful work has ministered to me for over 12 years now, starting with your debates versus two of the big four

of new atheism that now debunked religion. My question centers on my son. I have listened just a little

to your work on the historical Adam. My son is 14 and is bright. He seems particularly interested in evolutionary

development as means of explaining the way the animal kingdom has developed. One of his favorite

projects in school recently has been work illustrating the hippopotamus and whale as having a common

ancestor. His science teacher is now launching into a unit devoted

to natural evolution. My son believes in God and Jesus and attends youth group. But I don't

think he has put the questions together yet concerning what part does God play versus evolutionary

explanations. He is not a rebellious person, and we have a good

relationship, so he will be accepting of anything I want to put before him and ask him to read and

consider with me. How can I, one, be part of this journey with him, though I am not knowledgeable in this area, willing to learn, but not sure of a simple place to start.

2. Introduce my son to the line of thinking in your work in a way that is digestible to him, particularly your thought development in investigating how scientific observation in Anamalia's evolution interacts with God's

initial design and continuing work in us as creation. In Christ and full humanity, Caleb, United

States. It's great that you want to share this journey of discovery with your son, Caleb,

learning how best to integrate Christian theology with evolutionary biology is a vital task in contemporary culture. I'll be

addressing that question in the forthcoming volume three of my systematic philosophical theology.

I argue that the thesis of common ancestry, according to which all biological organisms

are genealogically related, is easy to incorporate within a Christian doctrine of creation.

You can therefore share your son's enthusiasm for his learning about the common ancestry of whales and hippopotamai.

Moreover, evolutionary biology has moved beyond the so-called modern synthesis,

and no consensus theory has been able to replace it,

so that we really do not understand the mechanisms which produced the history of life on this planet.

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