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Chris Tilling, prompted by a comment I left on an earlier post, has tackled head-on the question of whether Jesus was wrong<\/a>. This is relevant not least to the discussion of evolution among Christians, since if one is persuaded that Jesus didn\u2019t think evolution happened, and equally persuaded that Jesus could not have been wrong<\/a> about this, then there is not much left to be said!<\/p>\n

On what Bryant thought of evolution, and why, see Ken Schenck\u2019s recent post on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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