Nothing is more reassuring than seeing evidence that the next generation of Christians are seeing past the tired dogma of YEC, and recognising that evolution and Christianity are not in conflict. Mutatis mutandis, this article from a Southern Baptist readily applies to more than a few Christadelphians who have recognised the same fact: If the flood had happened the way that young-earth creationists say it did, then how do we explain the worldwide dispersion of animals? I wondered how animals originating in the Middle East migrated to places so geographically isolated as the Americas and Australia in such little time. Furthermore, if the flood explains many extinction events, why did certain marine animals go extinct but other marine animals lived? It seems that, of all animals, they should have thrived in this new aquatic world that would have been brought on by the flood. As I began to grow in my curiosity, I also noticed that my church had attitudes towards science that seemed unreasonable. A deacon at my church once said: “They can tell me all they want that the earth is old, or tell me about carbon dating. I have the book of Genesis, which tells me both are wrong.” As I pondered this statement, I realized how truly hollow this argument was. It wasn’t based on an in-depth study of the text, nor a careful consideration of the scientific evidence. It was based only on a shallow interpretation of the biblical text. biologos.org//blog/the-evolution-of-a-southern-baptist
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