Biology Through The Eyes of Faith book excerpts

Some excerpts regarding Evolution taken from Biology Through The Eyes of Faith by Richard T. Wright:


 "Evolutionary relationships dominate our understanding of the genetics of living organisms, from DNA structure to the importance of characteristics in the next generation. Ecology, animal behavior, comparative anatomy, embryology.. All are organized and interpreted from an evolutionary framework" (The Importance of Darwinism to Biology, pg. 117)


 "The millions of species of plants, animals and microbes are classified according to evolutionary principle's (common descent). The adaptations of all living things are understood as natural selection acting on genetic variations. The geographical distribution of organisms is interpreted as the outcome of speciation followed by dispersal." (The Importance of Darwinism to Biology, pg. 117)


 "...General trends in the fossil record suggest a progression: For example, single cells are found only in the oldest fossil bearing layers, invertebrates are found in the Cambrian (early Paleozoic), the first replies in the late Paleozoic, the first mammals in the Triassic, and placental animals in the late Cretaceous." (Evidences for Evolution, pg. 121)


 "..The appearance of gill arches in land animal embryos and notochords in higher invertebrates" (Evidences for Evolution, pg. 122)


 "Darwin's work on the biological sciences was his most greatest and revolutionary accomplishment" (The Darwinian Revolution and Human Thought, pg. 120)


*Applies to God guided or theistic evolution as well.

Common Ancestory Unites Us

Common Ancestory unites us, Special Creation divides us.

Evolution, creation

People don't like.the idea of a common ancestor and evolution because if they acknowledge that, they relinquish their rights to special creation or engineering, which gives many people not only a moral superiority complex and takes away fear of death but also means that all living things are related and many people do not want to give up prejudice, racism, control, religious ideology nor other views which may include hunting, destruction of environment, war, etc..
 Having a common ancestor through evolution would mean that every living thing is related and many people are not cool with that, they like the idea of being created, special and superior in nature to other Humans and species.

“Perhaps the anthropological role of the Christian church in human history might be oversimplified as follows: To undermine the structures of sacred violence by making it impossible forget how Jesus died and to show the world how to live without such structures by making it impossible to forget how Jesus lived." Gil Bailie ☀

"The Bible is not a self-help book. While it contains a lot of advice about life it isn’t primarily a book designed to help people live well or be healthy. Plenty of the advice is terrible, like when it’s acceptable to sell your daughter into slavery. Some of the advice only works in certain contexts and the vast majority of it is not aimed at individuals, but at communities." What the Bible is NOT ☀

“Rather Jesus represented the way of non-violence and even anti-violence. He represented the way of love – not of force or brute power. He opposed the Myth of Redemptive Violence and turned it on its head. In his death, he was not satisfying the demands of a vengeful God for a violent sacrifice to restore order. Rather he was taking upon himself all the violence of the world system, of us, in order that it and we might be healed, redeemed, saved from the otherwise endless cycle of violence and revenge."The cross of Christ and the Myth of Redemptive Violence ☀

'A lot of interpretive decisions were made for you before you picked up Romans. Ignoring verse divisions, chapter divisions, and paragraph breaks created by committees is one way to begin taking Romans back. Trying, as best we can, to read Romans as its original recipients would is the key. Knowing a bit about Greek style in writing rhetoric is indispensable. Forgetting caricatures of Judaism drawn from unbalanced reading of Jesus’ criticisms of some Pharisees in his time should be a prerequisite. And it might be worth supposing, from what we know of Gentile god-fearers in the first century, that the Gentile readers of the letter to the Romans respected Jewish teaching. It might be further worth supposing that Paul saw himself as a better Jewish teacher than any they might be getting advice from.”
—   How Your Bible Christianizes Paul, via azspot.net as well