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nature is cruel and the God would not create such cruelty. The author of Genesis seems to blame the cruelty on sin. Darwin chose to use is as a reason to believe that God was not involved in the evolutionary process. His daughter's death was another reason for him to reject Christianity.

Some see predators as cruel, others see them as necessary. Without predators, prey animals overpopulate their environment and then die of starvation or disease. Some see death as cruel, others choose to believe that it is the gateway to everlasting life.

I believe the Charles Darwin was a great scientist. He did painstaking work documenting changes in species. He helped people to understand how species have changed and continue to change. He showed how habitat influences the changes. Christians make a mistake when they pretend the evidence that he documented does not exist.

I do not believe that Charles Darwin was a great theologian. He included the word random because mutations seem to be random to him. He chose to reject God and Christianity due to painful events in his life. Others have had pain in their lives but remained faithful.

I believe that the creation process is more complicated than the process depicted by the book of Genesis. I would even say that I believe that Darwin was a better scientist than the author of Genesis. I also believe that the author of Genesis was a better theologian than Charles Darwin.

Science does not explain where the material that makes up the universe came from, Genesis does. In Genesis God says, "let there be", and there is. Charles Darwin's observations do not change that.

I can accept much of what Charles Darwin says, and I can do so without rejecting God or Christianity. I can also accept what the author of Genesis says about God without rejecting all of Darwin's work. I believe that the universe came into existence when God said, "let there be." I believe that God designed living creatures that indeed mutate and change over time.

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