Wacky Wednesday--Christians Shouldn’t Oppose Evolution

Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.

~God could have brought everything about through the process of evolution if He wanted to, right?
~Christians have resisted and then learned to accept many things they initially rejected, such as heliocentrism and interracial marriage. We can adapt to this, too.
~It makes us look foolish and anti-scientific.
~There’s nothing in essential Christian doctrine which requires evolution to be false.
~Can a person be saved and still believe in Evolution? Clearly. Then why do you bother fighting over something so peripheral?
~There are indicators that Genesis 1 should not be taken literally, like the presence of plants before the presence of sunlight.
~There are several non-literal interpretations of Genesis 1, such as the poetry approach, the days of revelation to Moses view, the gap theory, and the day-age theory.
~Don’t Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 contradict each other, if you take them both literally?
~Creation is religion and evolution is science. They are two different realms of meaning.
~Why would we expect God to write a scientifically accurate account of something this complicated when laying out a story for a bunch of primitive nomads anyhow?
~Couldn’t there have been people, time, or anything before Adam and Eve?
~Even the Pope has allowed for both to be true, and millions of mainstream and some conservative Christians also accept both.

Evolution/Creation Posts
Over at the Ethics class blog, I have just posted two long entries on evolution and creation
Why Origins Views Matter
A Scriptural analysis of the Theory of Evolution
Enjoy. =)