The Daily Mail (UK, not Don Surber's outfit):
Andrew Parker is a leading scientist in his field: a research fellow at Oxford University, research leader at the Natural History Museum, and as if that weren't enough, a professor at Shanghai's Jiao Tong university.Just a coincidence? Perhaps. But as they say, a coincidence is when God works a miracle anonymously.
As a scientist he never paid much heed to the Book of Genesis, assuming, like most of his colleagues, that such primitive mythology - which is believed to have been compiled from several sources between 950 and 500 BC - has long since been 'disproved' by hard scientific fact.
But after his Sistine Chapel moment, he went back to look at Genesis in more detail. And what he read astonished him. It was even, he says, 'slightly scary'.
Somehow - God alone knew how - the writer or writers of that ancient text had described how the evolution of life on earth took place in precise detail and perfect order.
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While I'm happy that such a thing has occurred to him, I'm a little bemused and annoyed that he is just now getting around to realizing something that should be obvious by one's second or third summer Bible School, and is proclaiming it like a revelation to all men.
The really annoying part, though, was the article's author's attempts to backpedal the whole thing with some kind of new-agey "other forms of wisdom" business. Anything to keep from having to admit that those dirty Christians might, indeed, be right...
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