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A Christian radio station in Edmonton likes to mention something related to Christianity during it's newscasts. Frequently, they have reports about things that World Vision or other Christian organizations are doing in poor countries. Today, they played a clip of Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis talking about how bad it is that some churches support the theory of evolution. The report said many people give up their faith in Christ when they get into college where they're taught evolution as fact.
I wonder about the backgrounds of these people who give up their faith. How many of them actually came from churches where evolution is accepted? Maybe many of them were raised in churches where evolution was fiercely denounced. If they end up thinking the evidence for evolution is pretty good, and they've been raised to think Christianity and evolution are incompatible, I can certainly see why they'd give up their faith. Maybe the message of Answers in Genesis is backfiring.
Or maybe some of these people who give up their faith come from churches where commitment to God doesn't really matter. Maybe they get into college and think, "Why bother? Faith doesn't make a difference in my life anyway."
There are some people, like Human Genome Project leader Francis Collins, who say a person can be completely committed to God and believe the theory of evolution. And it's not like this leaves us with no evidence for Christianity. Francis Collins himself wrote a book about why he believes in God. There's also evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. And some people have personal experiences that make God's involvement in their lives seem pretty obvious.
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You've got a good point here Alex. I don't know if you've read the book Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell, but one of the chapters talks somewhat about how often times we put Christianity and therefore God in a box, and we think that we've got Christianity (and God) figured out and if something comes along and disagrees with this, then we have to make a clear cut decision on which is right and which is wrong, when often times they aren't mutually exclusive.
I haven't read it, but what I have heard from Rob Bell has been good. I remember someone else drawing a picture of a cross. Most of it simply represented Christ. But there was chunk of it near the bottom that represented an explanation about how science matches up with the Bible. Then that explanation was disproven, that chunk was taken out of the cross, and the cross couldn't stand anymore. His point was that if we tie our faith too closely to something non-essential (like a scientific theory), our faith could be needlessly destroyed.
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