'In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void. Then God finished the task, which included the potential for ongoing molecular change and discovery of creation’s essential mechanisms. God saw everything that had been made, and, indeed, it was very good.
Such a simple adjustment in our understanding of the biblical creation story allows Christian theology to embrace modern science rather than oppose it.
This was one message of the fifth annual Science and Religion conference held last weekend at Bidwell Presbyterian Church in downtown Chico, an event now underwritten by a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation and its Scientists in Congregations initiative, headquartered at Bidwell Pres.'
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