NOT an Onion Headline: Evangelicals Admit Adam and Eve May Not Have Existed

NOT an Onion Headline: Evangelicals Admit Adam and Eve May Not Have Existed August 13, 2011

This just in from NPR:

And Venema is part of a growing cadre of Christian scholars who say they want their faith to come into the 21st century. Another one is John Schneider, who taught theology at Calvin College in Michigan until recently. He says it’s time to face facts: There was no historical Adam and Eve, no serpent, no apple, no fall that toppled man from a state of innocence.

“Evolution makes it pretty clear that in nature, and in the moral experience of human beings, there never was any such paradise to be lost,” Schneider says. “So Christians, I think, have a challenge, have a job on their hands to reformulate some of their tradition about human beginnings.”


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