In the Beginning

In the Beginning
Genesis 1: 1

Our son and daughter-in-law were showing us photographs of our two grandchildren. In one of them, the two children were sitting in the back of the car looking very solemn. “I think we had just had the birds-and-the-bees talk,” our son explained. Where do we come from? Somehow knowing where we come from helps us understand who we are. So where we come from is an important question that is not only true of us as individuals. In the United States, a foreigner is struck by the heat attaching to questions about the origin of humanity and the origin of the world itself. Did we evolve in a purely natural way, or did we come into being through a process in which God was involved?...