Darwin Made Me Do It: Evolution and the Doctrine of Sin

(I blogged about this several days ago but wanted to remind my readers.)

The Pastor's Monthly Roundtable at Princeton will be hosting a free webinar on Feb 8 called:

Darwin Made Me Do It: Evolution and the Doctrine of Sin

"February's "PMR" lecture is titled "Darwin Made Me Do It: Evolution and the Doctrine of Sin" and will ask the question: If we take human evolution seriously, and can no longer appeal to an historical Fall and the accompanying idea of Original Sin, then what is human sin and where does come from?

Kenneth A. Reynhout is a Ph.D. candidate in Theology and Science at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he is working on a dissertation on Paul Ricoeur’s importance for interdisciplinary theology. Mr. Reynhout is a Co-Director of the Science for Ministry Institute."

Comments

[Travis Greene]

"If we take human evolution seriously, and can no longer appeal to an historical Fall and the accompanying idea of Original Sin, then what is human sin and where does come from?"

I know this is just a blurb, but that question conflates several problems. Taking human evolution seriously doesn't necessarily negate any kind of historical Fall. And original sin is hardly the only way to conceive of such a fall's consequences. A more troubling and pertinent question, to me, is what evolutionary theory means for the origin of evil on earth. That is, I think you can have evolved humans experiencing some kind of historical fall, but I don't think that fall can explain adverse weather, disease, carnivorous animal species, and so on.