It’s not every day you see figures like Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the NIH and thought leader of theistic evolutionists, and NT Wright, a leading biblical scholar, collaborating on a musical number. This recent Biologos event saw them perform a song, co-written by Wright, that embraces evolutionary cosmology, suggesting a 14-billion-year-old Earth and that evolution was the divine method of creation.
Written to the tune of The Beatles’ Yesterday, the lyrics are:
Genesis
Earth and heaven in a cosmic kiss
Evolution must have been like this
Oh, I, believe in GenesisDNA
Shaping creatures from the dust and clay
Double helix in the Milky Way
Oh Genesis meant DNAHow He made it all 14 billion years ago
Wisdom, grace and love
For he spoke and it was soGenesis
Even Adam in a world of bliss
In the paradise we all now miss
Oh, I believe in GenesisIn a trice
Didn’t listen to divine advice
Einstein wondered whether God plays dice
We’re trapped within a world of viceWhy they had to fall I don’t know
it doesn’t say
they did something wrong
And we long for God’s new dayGenesis
Royal Priesthood in a holy bliss
New Jerusalem will be like this
Oh I believe in Genesis
The song feels the need to reinforce the idea that belief in Genesis is compatible with Darwinian Evolution. The problem with this view is three fold: Adam, Eve, and the Fall.
Both Wright and Collins support the view of proto-humans, in which Adam was taken or chosen from among them. But this contradicts the “Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” The biblical account rules out proto-humans as human life was made from non-life. DNA is not clay, actually.
The problem with Eve is similar; however, it is the custom of some theistic evolutionists to split the baby and say Eve was made from Adam, who was a proto-human, but the problem remains the same as with Adam. But for those who do not, Even is then not taken from a rib of Adam, yet another direct contradiction.
The problem with the Fall is how evolutionists in the church reconcile the Scriptures with proto-humans. Adam’s sin would not confer to the pro-humans because he would lack the federal headship since he is not their progenitor.
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