How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith? Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as

Francis Collins

Deborah Haarsma

Denis Lamoureux

Pastors such as

John Ortberg

Ken Fong

Laura Truax

Biblical scholars such as

N. T. Wright

Scot McKnight

Tremper Longman III

Theologians and philosophers such as

James K. A. Smith

Amos Yong

Oliver Crisp