Chapter 16 is titled 'Scientific Explanation of Origins Can Be Viewed in Light of Purpose, and If So, Are Objectionable'. In this chapter, one particular lesson one can draw is that the theological idea of the Fall is not undermined by endorsing the theory of evolution. In the process, one may raise a question why there has to be such a huge debris of death before human eventually emerged at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Well, if one could go back to the Scripture there are various events where one does not really know the reasons why things happened this way instead of that way. Yet those who were situated in that particular stage of history did not fully understand God's way of working. However, they trusted God's plan. Similarly, even about death in the evolutionary process, one may not really know the theological reason why it was so; however, the fact that death was there does not really undermine any other theological idea -- whether it's about the Fall or about the fact that God is in control or that God is the creator. In the end the fact is that whether it's this way or that way, God is the creator.
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