Hey everybody, I'm Tim McE and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, well in this episode we're going to be exploring and focusing on a specific topic

that has been really controversial in modern Western culture and that is the tension or at least

the apparent tension between science and religious faith.

A flash point in modern Western culture has been this debate between the scientific account

of the origins of life or the origins of the universe and the beliefs or convictions held

by Jewish and Christian religious communities about creation, God as a creator of the universe

and of all of life.

How and when and by what processes did all that happen?

This was never a burning question for me personally.

When I was a brand new follower of Jesus I just kind of figured those problems all had

a solution.

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