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#127 How do I reconcile Evolution, the Fall and Original Sin?

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The Fall and the Christian Theology Podcast

John polkinghorn was a brilliant physicist as well as theologian. His work shows that evolutionary biology and christian theology can quite successfully be brought together. But he seems to assume a fallen state exist when life occurred, rather than their being a specific event once humans came into being. Is there a biblical way of understanding the fall, which also allies it with evolutionary biology? That's phil's question. Tom: We have to distinguish between evidence for biological evi lution and the world view which we might loosely call evolutionism.

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