Evangel University Puns

I grew up in Evangelical circles and believed in 6-day creationism until I was 18. During Bible college, I had a lot of great discussions with close friends and became open to the idea of old-earth creationism or day-age theory. When I actually bothered to start reading about evolution from evolution scientists I found the theory incredibly compelling, and now confidently claim that the evolutionary model, despite the imperfections implicit in any scientific theory, seems to be the best model we have so far of our origins.

Unfortunately, landing here often causes some tension for a Christian, and this topic has been a somewhat anxiety-inducing conversation whenever it comes up with my parents for the past several years. I started a project this year to practice engaging these uncomfortable conversations with more compassion and understanding called "This Could Be Interesting" and I've been spending time talking to various interesting people all year about disagreements and how we can get better at processing them in loving and beneficial ways.

I recently got the chance to connect with Christian Evolution professor April M. Cordero and we were able to dig into some of these questions as well as get a little deeper into the question of why evolution is specifically so difficult to accept for Evangelicals. She also kindly obliged doing a bit of a Q&A session at the end to talk about some of the most common criticisms of evolutionary theory from Creationists. I think you guys will really appreciate the conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPI2KfcaTA

Realizing, though, that this was a conversation with someone I primarily agree with, I knew I was going to have to take the next step soon and talk to someone who was well equipped to defend Creationism as well and try to dig deeper there too.

To follow this conversation up I decided to connect with another family friend named Iain Juby who has a popular youtube channel where he's been teaching creation science for years. He graciously agreed to come on the show and talk with me about his work and why he maintains his belief in 6-day creation and is decidedly anti-evolution. That conversation should be out next week if you want to follow along with this journey a bit.

EDIT:

The Conversation with Ian Juby (Creationist, Youtubers, and Amateur Archeologist) is out now! Listen to us have a respectful conversation about Young Earth creationism and E

I’ve been thinking a lot about evidence for the existence of two evangels in Scripture recently, and another point popped into my head: The end result of Paul's evangel is the salvation of all humanity (not to mention the reconciliation of all creatures, including heavenly creatures), whereas not everyone ends up saved under Peter's evangel, which is good evidence that they're not one and the same. This one can be tricky because, from a relative perspective, not everyone gets saved under Paul’s evangel either, but from an absolute perspective everyone who isn’t saved from a relative perspective still will be, whereas that isn’t the case with the sort of salvation that’s being talked about under Peter’s evangel (although those who aren’t will still experience the same salvation Paul was talking about from an absolute perspective as well, of course).