{"id":855,"date":"2012-01-23T07:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peterenns\/?p=855"},"modified":"2012-01-23T08:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T13:04:24","slug":"once-more-with-feeling-adam-evolution-and-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peterenns\/2012\/01\/once-more-with-feeling-adam-evolution-and-evangelicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Once More, With Feeling: Adam, Evolution and Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><em>If evolution is right about how humans came to be, then the biblical story of Adam and Eve isn\u2019t. If you believe, as evangelicals do, that God himself is responsible for what\u2019s in the Bible, you have a problem on your hands. Once you open the door to the possibility that God\u2019s version of human origins isn\u2019t what actually happened \u2014 well, the dominoes start unraveling down the slippery slope. The next step is uncertainty, chaos and despair about one\u2019s personal faith.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/pete-enns\/adam-evolution-and-evangelicals_b_1219124.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> on the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If evolution is right about how humans came to be, then the biblical story of Adam and Eve isn\u2019t. If you believe, as evangelicals do, that God himself is responsible for what\u2019s in the Bible, you have a problem on your hands. 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