Series: Excerpts from “Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on
Evolution” We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled
with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them
change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their
relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually
comprise a book, provisionally titled, “Evolving: Evangelicals
Reflect on Evolution.” Humanity as and in Creation Christian
theology asserts that humans are spiritual creatures, a unity of
body and spirit or “soul,” integrated, not reducible downwards
to mere matter or upwards to mere spirit. A Scientific
Commentary on Genesis 7:11 Although committed to the principle
of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible would have
been written in terms its original recipients would have
understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his time,
a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek thought
and one which was about to receive shocks from astronomers such
as Copernicus and Galileo. But