There was a good NPR piece this morning about the growing number of Christian academics who realize that the creation story in Genesis cannot possibly be literal truth. Many of them are being persecuted for expressing their conclusions.

<< "The evolution controversy today is, I think, a Galileo moment," says Karl Giberson, who authored several books trying to reconcile Christianity and evolution, including The Language of Science and Faith, with Francis Collins.

<< Giberson — who taught physics at Eastern Nazarene College until his views became too uncomfortable in Christian academia — says Protestants who question Adam and Eve are akin to Galileo in the 1600s, who defied Catholic Church doctrine by stating that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa. Galileo was condemned by the church, and it took more than three centuries for the Vatican to express regret at its error.

<< "When you ignore science, you end up with egg on your face," Giberson says. "The Catholic Church has had an awful lot of egg on its face for centuries because of Galileo. And Protestants would do very well to look at that and to learn from it." >>

Source:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/138957812/evangelicals-question-the-existence-of-adam-and-eve