Science was the best vehicle for determining whether Galileo was right. Church leaders who feared the crumbling of their Aristotelian theologies were not the best persons to make such a determination. Likewise, the discipline of history is the best vehicle for determining the historicity of Adam and Eve. Church leaders who fear the crumbling of their evangelical theologies are not the best persons to make such a determination.
— David Miller, “Regarding the Evangelical Kerfuffle about the Historicity of Adam and Eve” on his blog Divine Salve
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