I can’t help but feel that it is wrong to hang the credibility of all the light and truth found in the apostolic Gospels on some conflict between genetics and Genesis. I am the first to admit that I have not opened myself up to the full revelation of Scripture. There’s lots of stuff in there I do not YET understand. But I sure as heck, am not going to let some scientists saying, “Ha-ha, gotcha,” waver my belief that the Bible contains the Light and Truth of God. At the same time, I am not going to let theological apologists tell me that the entire credibility of the Bible hangs on a single point of the Bible that appears to conflict with scientific discovery. The very idea that there is, “no way to affirm the Gospel without an historical Adam,” is absurd to me. The fact that scientific theory does not adequately reveal the truth of Scripture does not affect me, nor does it bring about any real concern. Last time I checked, this was not the goal of modern scientific research, nor is it a requirement of Faith. This line in the sand between evolution and Evangelism reminds me too much of the Church’s conflict with the Copernican model of our solar system. I can hear the same argument through time, “There is NO way to affirm the Gospel without a stationary Earth!” Yes, this sounds silly now. (It obviously wasn’t silly to Galileo, or to the few still out there who still believe this to be true.) But Christianity survived the death of the fixed Earth. We have flown to the Moon and back without passing any palaces or streets of gold. This does not seem to have threatened our ability to believe in God. So how is it that this theory of evolution could be perceived as such a threat to the belief in God, and Goodness, and Faith? Science is still young. It fits and starts. It runs down blind alleys and doubles back on itself to try again in another direction. In all probability, much of what we understand to be scientific “truth” today will be disproven in less than two hundred years. This is especially true for anything that could be described as a “recent discovery.” Knowing this, I find it hard to understand how the two thousand year old teachings of Jesus Christ could be in such immediate peril. A good scientist will have equal parts, wonder, interest, and suspicion. A good Christian will have fear, humility, and love.