(Pictures: Taken at Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Museum in 2009.)
Today's edition of The Wall Street Journal had a piece by writer John Farrell which celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Roman Catholic Church's encyclical Humani Generis. In that historic document, Pope Pius XII “confirmed, in broad terms, that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the scientific theory of evolution.”
Dr. Mohler wrote an excellent piece in reaction to Farrell's article: Mohler Article.
Here's an excerpt:
The 60th anniversary of Humani Generis should serve as a reminder that evolutionary theory does indeed present Christian theology with an inevitable conflict. In the course of arguing the opposite, John Farrell actually makes this point with profound clarity. Humani Generis did not go far enough, he insists, even as he points to “unfinished business” between the Roman Catholic Church and evolution.
The Catholics will sort out their theological questions for themselves. For evangelicals, the direct lesson is that any accommodation to evolutionary theory comes with huge and inescapable theological costs. There is no way to affirm an historical Adam while holding to any mainstream model of evolution, and there is no way to affirm the Gospel without an historical Adam.
Furthermore, accommodations to evolutionary theory never end. There will always be “unfinished business” that will demand further theological concessions.
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