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VOICES | Issue: "2011 Books of the Year" July 02, 2011

Darwin matters

The influence of evolutionary thinking reaches far beyond biology | Marvin Olasky

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Our Books of the Year story assumes that teaching about creation or evolution is important—but is it? After all, we are entering a campaign season in which the debate will focus on healthcare, government spending, and other hot issues. We don't have time to discuss theories, do we?

We should make time for one big reason: If Darwin was right the Bible is wrong, and we are foolish to follow it. But evolutionary thought that ignores God also has other effects of which we may be unaware. (Ask a fish about water and he's likely to reply, "What's water?"—if he's sufficiently evolved to be a talking fish.) The theological objections to macroevolution are literally crucial because they tell us whether the Cross was necessary, but some secondary issues are also worth pondering.

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