I wonder how belief in the evolutionary model of origins came to be a kind of sine qua non of intellectual soundness. I for one am perfectly content with the Genesis account, taken literally. I, as millions of others, understand Genesis to be a narrative written by Moses under the plenary inspiration of God, the only One Who claims to have been there when it happened. I believe God told Moses what He did, and that Moses recorded it faithfully.

Real science involves repetition and observation. First things are not replicable and observable, which is one reason why evolution will never advance beyond theory. Since origins are not provable, what is the harm in public schools’ allowing that it is possible that there was a divine origin, especially in districts where the majority of parents believe the Genesis account of creation?

As to those pastors referenced in the piece: I fear they have a start-and-stop problem with the Scriptures. That is, they find themselves picking and choosing which segments of the Bible are inspired and which are not. If a man rejects Genesis, how does he then preach other passages with the conviction born of belief in inspiration? Unless he doesn’t believe the Bible is really inspired at all. In which case it is hard to accept him as a Christian pastor, seeing that the office of pastor is announced and its duties described in the same book he has rejected.