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Well, I am an evangelical Christian, and so the answer I'm going to give is I'm speaking

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as someone who is an evangelical Christian. Prior to the 1960s, most evangelical Christians

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held to an old earth understanding of the universe. There was a book published by Henry

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Morris and John Whitcomb called the Genesis Flood, which argued very strongly for the

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young earth position, and as a result, many evangelical Christians today argue and hold

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to the young earth view. So, I do think that one can hold either to an old earth view or

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a young earth view. Both are permitted within the Genesis text. However, I think that the

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old earth view not only fits with Scripture, it also fits with science. And I believe

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that the God who gave us the Bible is also the God who created the heavens and the earth.

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And so, I believe that one ought to interpret the Bible and science in a way that both agree

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with one another. I do think that it is important that we hold to the historicity of Adam and

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that they were real people created miraculously by God. I think this is important for the

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gospel narrative of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. I also think that it fits very

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well with what science has told us about the common ancestry of humanity. When the Human Genome

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Project was completed by Francis Collins about 15 years ago, one of the things that they determined

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and discovered is that all of humanity derives from a common man and a common woman. Because

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that refers to the methods by which they were able to arrive at the conclusion that all of

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humanity has this one woman who is the common ancestor of all, and we have this one man who

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is the common ancestor of all. And I do believe that this is scientific evidence of the historicity

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of Adam and of Eve. And so, I think that a Christian can hold to both an old earth perspective and

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to the historicity of the original couple.