How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science

By Kathryn Applegate, J. B. Stump and Deborah Haarsma

Perhaps no topic appears as potentially threatening to evangelicals as evolution. The very idea seems to exclude God from the creation the book of Genesis celebrates. Yet many evangelicals have come to accept the conclusions of science while still holding to a vigorous belief in God and the Bible. How did they make this journey? How did they come to embrace both evolution and faith? Here are stories from a community of people who love Jesus and honor the authority of the Bible, but who also agree with what science says about the cosmos, our planet and the life that so abundantly fills it. Among the contributors are Scientists such as

• Francis Collins
• Deborah Haarsma
• Denis Lamoureux

Pastors such as

• John Ortberg
• Ken Fong
• Laura Truax

Biblical scholars such as

• N. T. Wright
• Scot McKnight
• Tremper Longman III

Theologians and philosophers such as

• James K. A. Smith
• Amos Yong
• Oliver Crisp

BioLogos Books on Science and Christianity invite us to see the harmony between the sciences and biblical faith on issues including cosmology, biology, paleontology, evolution, human origins, the environment, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Release date: May 9, 2016
• ISBN: 9780830899630

Deborah Haarsma

Deborah B. Haarsma (PhD, MIT) has served as the President of BioLogos since 2013. Previously, she served as professor and chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Haarsma is an experienced research scientist, with several publications in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical Journal on extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. She is co-author (with her husband Loren Haarsma) of Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design and co-editor (with Rev. Scott Hoezee) of Delight in Creation: Scientists Share Their Work with the Church. Gifted in interpreting complex scientific topics for lay audiences, Haarsma often speaks to churches, colleges, and schools about the relationships between science and Christian faith.

Reviews for How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

[trishrobertsmiller · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Conversion narratives about reconciling evangelical Christianity and evolution. Quite a few of them make the point that the anti-evolution rhetoric undoes itself, in that anyone who reads primary sources on evolution realizes they've been lied to--anti-evolution rhetoric misrepresents the evidence, relies on straw man, and is generally a repetition of 19th century responses to Darwin--and so the "you can be Christian OR believe in evolution" hurts Christian evangelism.