Richard Leakey doesn’t have the name recognition of many contemporary atheists. He’s not a ” title=”Richard Dawkins” target=”_blank”>Richard Dawkins, ” title=”Christopher Hitchens” target=”_blank”>Christopher Hitchens. But Leakey, a paleoanthropologist, is getting some attention for recently telling the ” title=”debate over evolution” target=”_blank”>“debate” over evolution isn’t that old—at least not relatively. And the evidence is difficult to deny.
That, of course, does not automatically take God’s hand out of Creation. There are a number of exceptional scientists who, like me, think that ” title=”Institute for Creation Research” target=”_blank”>Institute for Creation Research; these scientists don’t believe in a literal, 24/7 Genesis story. They believe that evolution was the mechanism by which God created.
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